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Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
--What writers' styles have influenced your writing, both in the past and recently?
I don't know about you, but I often kind of get influenced by the books I'm reading and my writing shifts a bit to echo that (if it's a very distinctive style). I had been reading some hard-boiled detective stories (Robert B. Parker's Spenser series, which I love because he evokes 70s-80s New England so clearly) but lately I've switched over to a book of poetry by Mary Oliver, who I love but I can feel the tug toward writing more elliptically and I have to resist it, because it doesn't suit my book, lol!
I hope writing is going well for you! How was the week in writing for you?
I don't know about you, but I often kind of get influenced by the books I'm reading and my writing shifts a bit to echo that (if it's a very distinctive style). I had been reading some hard-boiled detective stories (Robert B. Parker's Spenser series, which I love because he evokes 70s-80s New England so clearly) but lately I've switched over to a book of poetry by Mary Oliver, who I love but I can feel the tug toward writing more elliptically and I have to resist it, because it doesn't suit my book, lol!
I hope writing is going well for you! How was the week in writing for you?