Writers You Emulate

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Well, carcinogenic is a really big influence to me. I don't think my writing is too much like hers, but I re-read her work when I'm looking for inspiration if I'm stuck. :tehe:

Megan is waaaaaay cool guys. :tehe:

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I wouldn't say I emulate her now, but when I first started posting online, I definitely wanted to be Jenni (Sardonic Grin). I was terrified of her and I was reading Dear God... at the time, and :cheese:. That fic blew my mind. :3

Oh lord, how could I forget Elizabeth? :cheese:
Her work was the first imagery-heavy writing I'd come across, and I fell in love with it.
It's probably what shaped the beginning of the style I write in now.

Cormac McCarthy has really changed the way I write. I strongly believe he is one of the best writers of the century.

Chuck Paluhniuk, even though I'm much losing interest in his abilities.

Markus Zusak is brilliant. And so is Ray Bradbury.

Brian James. Jfc, I could live off of his writing.

Obviously, I look up to JK Rowling. Not just because she wrote Harry Potter, but because her writing style is perfect. It's simple enough for kids, but it's also very eloquent for adults. And her descriptions are genius. It's like you're really there.

I'm also in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald and JD Salinger.

Cassandra Clare, the author of The Mortal Instruments Trilogy. She's amazing♥

Jim Jarsmuch. He inspires me so much with my screen/stageplays.

He's so amazing at focusing more on character than plots and he takes these real, gritty, down to earth characters and making them just these... I can't even describe it.

I don't remember which story I read of Chelsea's, but it made me not hate using parentheses anymore and that was when I began to use them in my own writing.

I've been told my work is alot like Raymond E Feist's in places which is kind of a huge deal for me seeing as he's the writer I first got into and who really inspired me. And I've kind of leeched onto Stephen King's writing style, especially with The Eyes of the Dragon, the whole casual narrator looking in making witty comments thing without being a character in the plot. And recent Bret Easton Ellis has inspired me to write more mature stuff, I'm just waiting for that to actually come out in my writing :3

But yeah, Feist is the big one for me. And Grant Morrison and Jeph Loeb in terms of the superheroey/graphic story telling stuff.

Extremely cliche example, but Shakespeare.

His characters are so dynamic and his works are absolutely dripping with subtext.
It's brilliant.

Other than that, it's mostly onlive writers. I feel that they're my peers and the levels of their talent really inspires and pushes me.

I think my most insperational writer is JK Rowling. Her writing is just layers upon layers of depth, and when you find new clues it's like
Also Dan Brown, because his books are so twisty-turny you never REALLY know what's going on until the very last few pages.
And Stephen King His writing just feels so... real. Like, he's really captured humans the way they are, not the way we think they are.

As for influencing my writing... I have to say, James Patterson really influenced some of my character's voices with Maximum Ride. I kind of had this period where I tried to write like him/Max's voice, and I ended up with how I write today

I think since I started reading Sarah Dessen's books last summer, I've changed the way I write my main characters. Her characters are always slightly flawed in one way or another, and it's made me consider my characters and create them in similar ways.

And for first person, Lindsey Kelk and Sophie Kinsella are hugeee influences in the way I write that narrative.

Hemingway - my English teacher told me to read some of his stories, as she says I'm too descriptive. I fell in love with Hemingway's work, but I just can't find it in my heart to stop describing things so much ><

aaand Stephenie Meyer, with the way she has made a lot of teenage girls fall 'in love' with the characters. I don't think the Twilight saga would be so popular if Edward wasn't charming and selfless, and Jacob wasn't totally muscular and devoted.

Julio Cortázar, he creates atmosphere like nobody's business and his characters and the backstories for them are mindblowing. He just inspires me more than anyone before.

So far, the only writer I emulate is -by far- Edgar Allen Poe. I haven't read all of his work, much to my shame, but his story A Tell-Tale Heart was enough to inspire me in various ways. His poetry, his way of describing things, the dark undertone to everything... it's simply mesmerizing. I'm proud to say, a reviewer said one of my oneshot reminded her of A Tell-Tale Heart. I felt complete.

I've gotten "Gaiman-esque" from a few people just based on story ideas He's still mah numbah one.

I hope Ryan. I really do.
Like, I mean, I hope you can tell.
Not that I try to write like him, but he inspires me.

Kafka/Andy has compared me to a bunch of writers that I've never read. But I know it's good because she knows who they are.

JK Rowling. Her style isn't perfect, but I am in love with it. Her world is so absolutely real. And her writing isn't pretentious at all, it's not self-conscious, it just is,

I don't know if that made sense.

But I hope to be more like her than anyone else. I have a lot more dialogue than she does (too much, for some people) and I haven't created a whole world, but I hope that my characters are as real as hers are.

Also, Jorge Luis Borges. I think I'm kind of in love with him, baha. He's so intruiging I can't even begin to describe. He captures these little moments and strange ideas that are just so interesting. I actually read his work after writing a few of my short stories and I can see little simularities

Not that I'm anywhere near as good as these two, but I hope that maybe I will be even a little bit closer, someday.

Douglas Adams. I just love the way he writes, and his subject matter as well. Comic genius, found through attention to minute detail. And I adore his such flawed, such honest characters. I try to write a bit like him, but I think sometimes my stories are a bit too dark to really suit the style. It's just brilliant, really.

A lot of online writers inspire me. Too many to list.

Greta Morgan, Lee Child, Malorie Blackman

Greta Morgan

Greta Morgan