The Score It! results are in. The literary analysis measured four areas of writing style for comparison: Authorial Vocabulary (voice); Expressive Complexity (choice and distribution of word lengths and expressive style); Grammar (parts of speech chosen including use of prepositional phrases); and Tonal Qualities (use of functional words such as a/an/of).
The results are unexpected. My writing style strongly resembles three current authors. One writes political thrillers, another writes for middle schoolers, and another writes traditional westerns.
Never in a million years would I have matched my writing style with David Baldacci, the best-selling, political-thriller writer. My writing voice was a 99% match to his, expressive complexity was a 92% match, grammar came in at 98%, and tone at 87%. I checked out an audible version of his novel, THE TARGET, and listened to it over the weekend. It had a strangely familiar feel about it, somehow comforting.
David Baldacci is an American novelist. An attorney by education, Baldacci writes mainly suspense novels and legal thrillers. -Wikipedia
If you’re a David Baldacci fan, I want to hear your input! Are we a match?
