Hi uhm I saw you rbd a post about asks so- here's one!
What is your main inspiration in writing? I mean not the "what's the reason you write?" or "why do you keep writing?" (although I wouldn't mind getting the answers to them as well!) but more "do you have media in mind that you want your writing to be similar to?"
For example, do you try to replicate writing "tricks" of your favourite authors or do you like a specific way characters are introduced in a movie?
Hello! Seeing your icon pop up in my notifs always makes my day. This is tricky, nothing immediately comes to mind, I think I’d have to say a little of every story I’ve ever consumed pops up some where in my writing. The one I’m posting right now is inspired by Overly Sarcastic Production’s piece on time loops, but it’s sort of an outlier in that it has one single inspiration, everything else is a hodgepodge.
Separating the art from the artist, I’m a huge fan of the way Joss Whedon writes dialogue in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Prose and character wise, I like the book The Rook by Daniel O’Malley (at least I think that’s his name, my dog is asleep on me so I don’t want to get up and check my bookshelf). The economy is in shambles, so I crave happy endings, even when dealing with dark topics. Subject matter wise I can write short stories that are just about the characters and plot, but anything over twenty chapters risks becoming a way for me to examine a deeper subject like rape culture, colonialism, or globalism vs isolationism, so the inspiration for my longest stories are essays and editorials I’ve read. (Except Leandra’s story in Love and Fury, that ended up being about a real experience of mine).
And that doubles as the reason why I keep writing, the little stories I tell myself are how I digest the world, and pacing around the room while I daydream disturbs my dog’s sleep schedule so I write fan fiction instead!
