by Lorraine Nye Eliot--great book, especially for a yardsale find--and in it, Eliot wrote:"For years Kate Chopin had been reading authors she admired in search of an authorial voice suited to her temperament. She found it as she began to study and translate works of a French writer who would have as great an influence on her writing as Gustave Flaubert had on his."
It seems odd to seek in the voices of others your own voice, but I have to admit whether or not you seek, you can find it that way. The biggest influence on a great deal of my fantasy writing is an author who taught me about how pace, action, and humor can co-exist with engaging characters, emotional connection, and angst. He taught me this through his own works--books I could read in a day. Books I couldn't put down.
I don't try to emulate this author. I just try to learn what I can and apply it in my own way to my own works.
My greatest influence to this date is Jim Butcher and his Dresden Files
series. Chopin's was Guy de Maupassant. Who is yours?==========================
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