Writers You Emulate

What authors and writers do you emulate?
Which inspire you?
Which help shape the way you write?

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Francesca Lia Block has done a lot for me.
I mean, you probably wouldn't guess it if you compare my work to hers, but she has. Capturing innocence and purity and vulnerability and some... interesting ways of describing things.

A reviewer compared me to her the other day.

Oow, definitely Francesca Lia Block for me, as well. I love her. Her surrealism and simplicity is great.

I also like Stephen Chbosky's writing in the way that he portrays his characters.

Chuck Palahniuk is also an influence on me, because I take great interest in his metaphors, boldness, and twists.

All of these writers have a simplistic way of writing, which I like as well.

Lemony Snicket, Anne Rice, and Lewis Carroll.

Several readers have told me about the similarities of my writing with Lewis Carroll's Alice books.

Just one readers has caught up some of Lemony Snicket in my stories.

Anne Rice simply inspires me, but I have little to no similitues in my work compares to hers... she just inspires me to use poetic devices on my writing.

I'm not sure...

L.A. Meyer has helped me with present tense/active past tense writing. I could never write using it before his books.

But mostly Edgar Allen Poe. Even though he wrote poetry, it has helped my stories a ton. The figurative language in his poems has taught me how to describe everything so much better.

Ray Bradbury and no one else :file:

Neil Gaiman.
The rest are online writers :shifty

Mostly online writers also

^ Yeah, same. :XD
There's no real authors I want to write like, because I want to write like myself, if that makes sense. :XD

Online writers, Chuck Palahniuk -gave me the basis of my writing and stating whatever the hell I like along with the concept of shock-writing and brutal realism.
And I discovered that Toni Morrison and I share the same narrative style D: D:

But she's so much better than me

Online writers, of course, but mostly Oscar Wilde.

Steven King, Dean Koontz (even though it's brain candy) and F. Paul Wilson. I love their styles of horror.

Online writers as well... mostly The Way, Lonna, and everyone who's ever written an imagery heavy story.

Everything I've ever read has inspired me in some way.

Also like Jon Walker said above, originality is probably the best, rather than copying or mimicking the style of other writers

Yeah, I try my very hardest to avoid copying anybody else, and write the same way my narrator talks.

But I got the inspiration to do that from Charles Bukowski.
:tehe:

Janne Wirman:

Also like Jon Walker said above, originality is probably the best, rather than copying or mimicking the style of other writers

In my writing class that I took this semester, we spent a class discussing style, and my professor explained that it's not a bad thing to copy another author's style. It is, in fact, a good thing. Especially if you go through phases in which you mimick different styles and, by doing that, you'll eventually develop your own style which, ultimately, is usually made up of different elements of different styles.

Edgar Allen Poe really inspires me.
Though, I'd like Stephen King's success.

^I'd love Neil Gaiman's success. All he wanted was a job where he didn't have to get up in the morning :XD

A.M Homes. She inspired me to write in third person, present tense, and write in a clear, realistic fashion, which is how I'm going about writing my story Loves Me Not. All of her books are fantastic, yet strange, as she makes her characters, who should be considered blatantly normal people, do the most bizarre things. I'm slowly learning from her style how to add some craziness to characters, while simultaneously making it not look completely unappropriate...If that makes any sense.
Ned Vizzini also shaped how I write my first person way of writing, by helping me learn how to shape a character's personality, directly from their point of view. Also Tom Perrotta is an excellent source of information for me, just recently.

Francesca Lia Block
Libba Bray
Cecily von Zigesar (Gossip Girl) helped me master cattiness.
Online writers.

fool's paradise:

Chuck Palahniuk is also an influence on me, because I take great interest in his metaphors, boldness, and twists.

I agree 100%. His work just leaves you with this funny feeling in the pit of your stomach just like 'wow'.I especially love the nihilistic, sarcastic undertone in everything he writes. After reading a Palahniuk book you can't help but see the world differently.

And there's a stack of online writers I feel too n00by to name. :)