1. Whose writing does your own most resemble?
Answer: My writing is probably most similar to Shannon Hale's YA lit.
2. Which writer's writing and revising habits does your method most resemble?
Answer: Gustav Flaubert. He'd work and rework a sentence for a month to make it right. I tend to revise my stuff eleventy-seven times before I find myself willing to send it out to anywhere really important.
3. Of past writers, which do you wish you had been in another life?
Answer: I wouldn't wish to live their lives (none were that happy), but I wish I'd written Shakespeare's stuff (obviously!)... if not his, then Austen's, Dickens's, or Chaucer's (even the bawdy ones). I'd also love to have written Hawthorne's novels.
And now, your answers...
1. I know some writers I would like it to resemble, but I don't think I'm there, yet. I have a rather distinctive voice. I fear I'm probably more like Stephenie Meyers in style than I am many others.
ReplyDelete2. Haven't the faintest idea.
3. I'd love to have the talent and skills of a number of writers, but I wouldn't want to have their lives. Think Poe, Heinlein, Heyer and Roberts.
I'll give you answers but with a declaimer... I am close to these answers in my mind, and not in reality or at least I’ll give you answers I wish could be.
ReplyDelete1: Robert Jordan mixed with J.K Rowling… since those two authors are the ones I have study day and night. They are a direct influence in what my mind projects as a writing process.
2: I have no knowledge of any authors editing habits… just check my blog for proof.
3: If i had to pick from dead writers, then it would be Robert Jordan… except I would want to have finished my work before dying. But I wouldn’t change who I am for anything, but at least you have an answer…
1. Whose writing does your own most resemble?
ReplyDeleteAnswer: My own.
2. Which writer's writing and revising habits does your method most resemble?
Answer: My own.
3. Of past writers, which do you wish you had been in another life?
Answer: The guy who wrote up the wild wild west wanted posters because then I would have been able to illustrate my work as well.
To be honest Shakes...I don't study nor have I ever studied other writers or their habits. If I like what is written I don't dissect it but simply enjoy it and move on. I have no illusions about being the Walt Whitman of my generation. Nor would I want to be because my name is Mark not Walt.