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 Post subject: Your Writing Influences
PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:00 am 
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Inspired by Hanzo's thread, which writers have the most influence on your work?

Ray Bradbury
Rod Serling
Neil Gaiman
Edgar Allen Poe
Warren Ellis

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 Post subject: Your Writing Influences
PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:55 am 
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Ray Bradbury
Kurt Vonnegut
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Philip K. Dick
Cormac Mccarthy


At one time I'd have said J.R.R. Tolkien, but I've all but eliminated this influence from my work, though he remains a strong inspiration.


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:04 am 
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M.R. James
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Patrick F. McManus!

I used to peruse issues of Field and Stream at the college library and read his columns! :thumbsup:

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Miguel de Cervantes
Kurt Vonnegut
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Heinlein
Phillip K. Dick
Ray Bradbury
Luigi Pirandello
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pearl Buck (The Good Earth)
Edgar Allan Poe
Neil Gaiman
Shakespeare & some days,
J.M. DeMatteis

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:25 am 
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And God bless Grant Morrison for THE INVISIBLES & ALL STAR SUPERMAN.

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And God bless Grant Morrison for THE INVISIBLES & ALL STAR SUPERMAN.

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Harlan Ellison
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Dan Simmons
Rod Serling
Paul Auster
Neil Gaiman
Garth Ennis
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:02 pm 
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George R.R. Martin
David Gerrold
Joe Haldeman
Greg Rucka
Paul Grist
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Garth Ennis and Peter David really shaped the kind of thing I want to try on my next collaboration.
I want to write True Stories like Frank's from different people's points of view. After I saw that, I realized I must make the time to preserve some of these observations. How quickly DOES this life pass day to day, anyway, when you drink it to the lees?
I love the way TS#1 had brotherhood, primal forces, and victory---the essence of the superhero comics, in real life.

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