Young Writers Society

Who are your main influences for writing?

I have to say, one of mine is Bill Watterson. His stuff was one of the first I ever read, and for better or worse, the huge amount of crazy imagination put in his work, yet delicacy of it, has remained one of my strongest influences ever.

What about you?

Everyone's going to hate me for saying it, but the Harry Potter series were the first books that actually inspired me to write and to try writing. As for other stuff...I liked how in My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult used point of view, so I'm doing something similar in my NaNo novel...yeah.

Now I hate you Cassandra! Just kidding


Oscar Wilde. Because I love him with a passion that is unyielding! although, he inspires my style. What inspired me to write was probably...I'm not sure why I wrote at first. But certainly, Oscar Wilde pushed me to my 'good' point, the point where I kind-of-sort-of got a style of my own.

Most enduring influence?

...I suppose Dostoyevsky, Tolkien, Dumas...and perhaps Lloyd Alexander. Though sometimes, for certain things, Douglas Adams. He slips in.

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Everyone's going to hate me for saying it, but the Harry Potter series were the first books that actually inspired me to write and to try writing. As for other stuff...I liked how in My Sister's Keeper Jodi Piccoult used point of view, so I'm doing something similar in my NaNo novel...yeah.

Harry Potter? But you don't write a bit like Rowling--more like Picoult, I think, if either, and better than dear J.K. ^_~

Joan Aiken and Diana Wynne Jones. I still read their books and love 'em.

Myth wrote:Joan Aiken and Diana Wynne Jones. I still read their books and love 'em.

Diana Wynne Jones...I forgot her. Howl is hilariously brilliant. ^_^

I love that book! Though I prefer the Chrestomanci series.

J.D Salinger!!

Poor Imp wrote:

Everyone's going to hate me for saying it, but the Harry Potter series were the first books that actually inspired me to write and to try writing. As for other stuff...I liked how in My Sister's Keeper Jodi Piccoult used point of view, so I'm doing something similar in my NaNo novel...yeah.

Harry Potter? But you don't write a bit like Rowling--more like Picoult, I think, if either, and better than dear J.K. ^_~

Hee hee. Thanks, Imp. I'm thinking there must be other big influences in my writing that would be easier to make a connection to, but I can't actually think of any at the moment, as luck would have it. XD

I don't know if I'd have ever written or even seriously read poetry if it hadn't been for a chance encounter with Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson: reading through that is all the inspiration I'll ever need.

As for writing style, well: Guy Gavriel Kay, Orson Scott Card, T. H. White; for poetry, probably Tennyson and Heaney.

Robert Jordon influenced me a lot. The way he goes from one character to another in his novels gave me some great ideas.

But Rowling gave the final push to put the pencil in my hand and start writing.

For me it is deffenatly the Lord of the Rings series and the Redwall novels. They shaped the style of writing that I write.

Also, this might sound weird but being bored. I started writing my book when I was sick and had nothing to do. From there I just kept writing.

Another thing that influences my writing is my mood. I only write when I'm relaxed because if I were to write when I was in any other mood, my writing would have major mood swings.

Jearjioe

I have no idea. Seriously. I mean, I'm influenced by pretty much every book I read, but to list them all is pretty much impossible and I cant pinpoint any one novelist/poet that really sticks out -- at least not so far as style goes. Ideas, well, I'm mostly a Gone With The Wind person, LOL. The whole war/conflict of interests/romance-amidst-greater-things kind of approach sticks with me whenever I'm coming up with new ideas. Plus, Scarlett is such a selfish you-know-what that I find the idea of creating a character in her image irresistable. But then, I'm weird that way.

Oh, and Bill Watterson is brilliant. 'Nuff said.

Ahh... I don't remember anymore, as sad as that may sound.

I don't believe there has been one writer that has created such an impact on my writing style. Usually what happens, is retaliation. I read, of course, but if I read an excellent book, I want to rise above that writing style (maybe mimic it slightly) and make it my own. I retaliate, and usually say to myself, "Ahh... this paragraph/sentence/character/plot/setting etc. sucks! I can writer better than that! What a jerk!" Even if the novel is superb, I usually knock it down hill, and that's my driving force to improve, lol!

Yes, I'm . But I've mentioned also, I'm an unorthdox writer too.

I'm with bubbles. Gone with the Wind is my main influence, and I love any book with adventure, romance, the whole nine yards.

Specific authors? Hmm, that's actually hard to pinpoint. I think I digest a little of each author I read, but mostly Austen, Dostoyevsky, Dumas, Mitchell...all those greats.