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mejomonster · 2 years

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If our writing is to a degree the influence of what we have read, I'd like to know particularly what fucking authors I read that rubbed off on me that I write the particular way I do.

I Know to a degree Edgar Allen Poe has got to be why I do the particular emotional descriptions and specifically poetically rhythmic sentence choices. He did this thing of sentences breaking in places to feel like poetry almost, and I definitely picked that up at age 12 and never stopped.

But I also got into this specific habit of going not just biased pov third person (which plenty of authors I most enjoy tend to do), but also this sort of very thought-heavy biased pov where I don't tell the reader all thoughts but what I write is a hint to what's not said, and i write emotionality of the pov (again a lot like poe I know I picked up some word choice and sentence style from him) but it doesn't say it all it sort of makes a shape. I cannot figure out what writers I picked it up from. Maybe some fanfic writers I liked? I know at some point mid college, I swung from writing Really Minimalistic to enjoying going in DEEP into each scene to enjoy and savor it. And that's when those sections went from same style but curt, to very in depth and scenes got 5 pages long when they used to be 1 page. But I can't think at the moment of who writes like that.

Also, the emotional biased unreliable way I do description is something I can see I was doing all through High school, very early, so I picked that up from something I read probably soon after poe. Really early on.

#rant #i just. i wonder where the fuck i get it from??#if i knew then i coukd read something other than my own stuff when i need to shift baxk into it for writing lol #but also just out of curiousitys sake #i KNOW biased pov i picked up because Holly Black. Poe. Anne Rice. ALL use it.#and i picked up stuff from those 3 a lot. i picked up some frankly Too Much taste for unique peculiarities in writing from anne rice #as in i appreciate something feeling Distinct over somrthing feeling perfect/solidly executed. if its technivally perfect but #the same style as other stuff its less interestinf to me. i think its partly cause anne rice flips pov voice and then style to a distinct #degree when povs shift #then poe does the poetic rhythm even in prose. and i loved it when i noticed it.#and after that i always thought of sentence length and breaos #as ways to control rhythm in prose and the impact of moments #and i know absolutely i got that part from poe #but like. idk i write in this way where im. well its always character analysis #and its like i go into their pov into their thoughts. then put their thoughts on the page raw #and you still have to figure out between the lines theur truth they wont tell u or thenselves.#and its very imagery heavy. and maybe the character introspection is from anne rice? she does it to some degree #i know my genre preferences i got from holly blaxk #the instant i read Tithe and Valiant. fae political bullshit juxtaposed against new jersey mundane? i was like #this is IT THE PINNACLE. MY IDEAL FAVORITE

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