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rynli · 4 months ago

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Hey there! I’ve been reading A Better Kind Of Animal, and (among other aspects) I love your authorial voice. I’m curious to ask: Beyond Disco Elysium, do you have any particular literary inspirations? Or just general reading recommendations, works you love? :-)

Thanks! I've definitely absorbed stylistic bits and pieces from all sorts of books over time, but I don't have any specific inspirations that I can point to (though I'm 99% sure that my banter-writing style can be traced directly to the Star Wars Republic Commando book series... those were my favorite books in high school and were honestly pretty pivotal for me, lmao).

I'm a big fan of how Pratchett uses language in the Discworld books! I've not been able to emulate that style, but it's writing goals for me.

My current favorite book is Network Effect (book 5 in the Murderbot series). One of the rare books that I've read more than once.

#I'm actually modifying my style a Lot for the disco fic #I use a lot of super long sentences held together with semicolons and em dashes but it doesn't mesh with DE #fighting for my life to break those thangs down #rynasks #I know I've lost my mind about other books recently but hell if I know what they were #I really need to keep a list of books I liked #everyone go read murderbot tho. security construct hacks its programming and goes rogue so it can... watch soap operas on the clock #*smacks SecUnit* this bad boy can fit so much ptsd and social anxiety #it's heavily autism-coded and people learn to ACCOMMODATE it instead of having that bullshit happy ending where it learns to be 'normal'.#it's a story about personhood but it is NOT about a bot wanting to be a human.#four novellas and then the novel. and the novel is so fucking good yall. also SecUnit is funny as shit #thank you for coming to my ted talk

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