I am writing like ...

At last! Website confirms I write like Margaret Atwood ...The phenomenally popular I Write Like analyses your prose and matches its style with famous authors. Who's your literary doppelganger?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog

This morning, I am writing like Nabokov (and no doubters, please - here is the proof). Yesterday it was HP Lovecraft (and here is proof again, for anyone with reservations about my ability to engage with the Cthulhu Mythos).

I, and 100,000 other people, have been messing around with a great new website. I Write Like, designed by software developers Coding Robots, lets you paste in a section of your prose and analyses your vocabulary, sentence-length and punctuation. It then compares this to a list of 40 famous writers, and comes up with the closest comparison to your style. It's proved a huge hit since it was launched last Friday, reaching the 100,000-visitors-in-a-day milestone on Tuesday and spreading like wildfire across blogs and Twitter.

In fact it's been so popular that Margaret Atwood, one of the authors included in the site's database, was prompted to try it out. Unfortunately, Atwood revealed, she writes like ... Stephen King. A second attempt told her she wrote like James Joyce. The site's creator is now promising to "train the database" with more of her works so it'll be able to recognise her in the future.

William Gibson , the author of Neuromancer, found he wrote like Haruki Murakami. He was subsequently added to the database – but then found he wrote like Nabokov (we've got so much in common).

So it might not be getting it right every time but I Write Like is an awful lot of fun. And being told that – yay! – this blog has been written in the style of Atwood has cheered me up no end. Give it a try – and let us know if your writing doppelganger is Dan Brown ...