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If you wrote a book right now, what authors would be your influences?
Posted on 3/24/18 at 8:00 am
Posted on 3/24/18 at 8:00 am
If you had to stop what you were doing and had to write a book, what few authors would be your strongest influences on style, structure, and content?
I'd say Stephen King (4th wall and limited dialogue) and James Michiner (Big picture fluid story).
I'd say Stephen King (4th wall and limited dialogue) and James Michiner (Big picture fluid story).
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Posted on 3/24/18 at 6:22 pm to Pectus
Bernard Cornwell
Posted on 3/24/18 at 6:28 pm to Pectus
Steven king for sure.
Joe r lansdale.
Craig Johnson
Lawrence block to a degree but without all the AA meetings.
Denise Lehane
Lee child
Elmore Leonard
Michael Connelly
Now, authors I would actively try and avoid emulating.
Clive Cussler
Preston & child
David balddaci
Dan brown.
Joe r lansdale.
Craig Johnson
Lawrence block to a degree but without all the AA meetings.
Denise Lehane
Lee child
Elmore Leonard
Michael Connelly
Now, authors I would actively try and avoid emulating.
Clive Cussler
Preston & child
David balddaci
Dan brown.
Posted on 3/24/18 at 6:30 pm to biglego
Brandon Sanderson for his unbelievable pace and great story telling. Pat Rothfuss for his incredible prose.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 2:54 pm to Pectus
Ryan Holiday
TIM Ferris
Ron Chernow
Charles Dickens
I do realize my list is all over the place.
TIM Ferris
Ron Chernow
Charles Dickens
I do realize my list is all over the place.
Posted on 4/1/18 at 10:16 am to Pectus
I've been writing since 2010. I'd go with S. King, Frank Hebert, and Robert Crais. Can't say I write anything like any of them.
Posted on 4/1/18 at 1:00 pm to Pectus
For me, it would have to be Hemingway and probably Kerouac, for their work ethic even if I couldnt hope to come close to their talent. I’d add Fitzgerald, but he had such a way with words that it seems ill advised to even attempt.
Posted on 4/1/18 at 2:45 pm to Enadious
Brad Thor
Posted on 4/6/18 at 10:49 pm to Pectus
For this question, I'm assuming I have writing talent (lol).
I like literary fiction, so I'd want to tie in my favorites from that genre, which would be Dostoevsky, Fitzgerald, and Goethe. I don't know if their writing styles, etc, could be reconciled, but I guess I'm saying—if I was an author, those are the guys I'd want to be compared to.
I like literary fiction, so I'd want to tie in my favorites from that genre, which would be Dostoevsky, Fitzgerald, and Goethe. I don't know if their writing styles, etc, could be reconciled, but I guess I'm saying—if I was an author, those are the guys I'd want to be compared to.
Posted on 4/6/18 at 10:51 pm to Pectus
Probably Truman Capote and Ernest Hemingway (curt prose) mixed with Elmore Leonard and John D MacDonald (offbeat mystery)
This post was edited on 4/6/18 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 4/8/18 at 12:57 am to Pectus
Somewhere in the middle of the Ernie Hemingway-Cormac McCarthy spectrum
Posted on 4/10/18 at 6:16 pm to Pectus
Matthew Christopher
Posted on 4/17/18 at 4:51 pm to Pectus
Paul Auster
John Cheever
Charles Bukowski
Weird, lyric, and relatively minimalist.
John Cheever
Charles Bukowski
Weird, lyric, and relatively minimalist.
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