Thursday, February 17, 2011

Do You Write Like a Man or a Woman?

There's a program called the Gender Genie  that supposedly tells you if you write like a man or a woman.  It turns out that I write more like a man (Female score: 300/ Male score: 370)  Hollywood, do you hear?  I write like a man! 

How about you broads?  Do broads write more like men or women.  Post your scores and let me know.

3 comments:

  1. O wow! I'd just written something as 'a man', and the genie's telling me I wrote as a woman. So I tried what I'd written as 'a woman' and the genie says a man wrote it. WEIRD.

    Great fun for a Friday evening at week's end! THANK YOU.

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  2. Female Score: 917
    Male Score: 870

    I guess I just confirmed I am, in fact, a woman.

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  3. I entered the following Mamet excerpt from the preface of his book "On Directing Film" and found out that David Mamet writes like a man.
    Male score 489
    Female score 286

    "A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains? What is the story? The story is the essential progression of incidents that occur to the hero in pursuit of his one goal.

    The point, as Aristotle told us, is what happens to the hero ... not what happens to the writer.

    One does not have to be able to see to write such a story. One has to be able to think.

    Screenwriting is a craft based on logic. It consists of the assiduous application of several very basic questions: What does the hero want? What hinders him from getting it. What happens if he does not get it?

    If one follows the norms the application of those questions will create, one is left with a logical structure, an outline, from which outline the drama will be constructed."

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