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Pengi:
I read this funny fairy tale once called the Adventures of Captain Bluebear and I just laughed so hard through the whole book because of the way the author moves through the story. When I try to write humor, I try to make the story move in the same pace as that story did. When I write drama I trend towards a more descriptive feeling.

I've never had my writing specifically compared to anyone in particular by a reader, though.

RokofAges75:
I'm very influenced by what I read.  I don't intentionally try to emulate other writers' style, but you can see their influence in my writing and the way it's changed from story to story over the years.

When I first started writing fanfic, I was fresh out of middle school and loved Lurlene McDaniel, queen of the tween terminal illness tearjerkers, and you can see her influence in almost every fanfic I wrote that first year or two.

Broken was a transitional story for me, style-wise, and that one, at least the first half, was influenced by what I was reading that semester of high school - classic literature for my AP English class, Harry Potter, and Swollen Issues.  The classic literature spawned my awkward attempts at including symbolism, as well as my dream interpretation phase.  Although I'm embarrassed to admit this for fear of insulting J.K. Rowling, I can see the influence of her style in the early chapters of Broken, which use a lot of parentheses with lines of dialogue or added information, something I'd never used before and don't really use anymore, although JKR pulls it off much better!  And Swollen Issues inspired the plot and possibly also a lot of the over-the-top angst and melodrama, although maybe that was just me being a melodramatic teenager.  The fanfic Cover Me With Dreams was a huge source of inspiration for the sequel BMS, which was my first attempt at a "grown up" romance.

When I started Secrets of the Heart, I'd been on a Stephen King kick - I think I'd started rereading 'Salem's Lot - and you can see the influence in the beginning of that story by how descriptive it is, especially with locations and stuff, which I'd never been so into describing before.

I don't remember what I was reading when I started Curtain Call, but I'm thinking it had to be something in first person (probably Jodi Picoult) because even though I hardly ever write novels in first person, that one always felt like a first person story to me.  I find that when I've been reading a lot of first person stuff, I start thinking in first person when I go to write, and sometimes it's hard to transition back into the third.  The opposite is also true - when I've been reading something that's written in third person and really flowery and descriptive, it's hard to write well in first.

As far as being compared to other writers... I think there's a group of us who like to write the same genre that I could see being compared to one another, but otherwise, I haven't really been compared to anyone that I can remember.

mare:
Tonight's question:

Does anyone have a question I could borrow? lol

Hpoefully one will come t me but I swear I can't think of anything at the moment!!

RokofAges75:
I'm surprised you've been able to keep going as long as you have!  I would have run out of questions a long time ago LOL.  But I thought of one!  It's a two-parter.

How does music influence your writing?  Have you written any stories or scenes based on BSB songs?

mare:
^ Good question! lol

I think the problem for me is everything i'm coming up with, we've already discussed at one point. I might just bring some of those up too just to keep this going but yes, now's the time to really jump in peeps! Because I think we all love this thread. The more debatable, the better. :)

Now to answer this question as a professional musician...mus ic doesn't influence my writing one bit lol

I hardly even listen to music because I really don't like a lot of what's out there these days. I enjoy peace and quiet and that especially includes when I write. I know a lot of you use soundtracks to get motivated to write scenes or become inspired. I can't even have the TV going on in the background.

As far as BSB songs or scenes I rarely if ever include lyrics or scenes where they're actually singing in my stories because I am horrible when it comes to remembering song lyrics to begin with lol The only exception to that rule was a song fic I had written way back for some kind of contest. It was Two Hearts and I think it was a Nick song, I used. I can't even remember lmao I FAIL! I really do. But even then, as you see by the title, I refused to use the actual title of the song for my story. I wish I had though because then I would have remembered what the song was. Unless he does have a song called Two Hearts? *rambles out of thread naked and confused* lol I am SO alzheimer's Nick.

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