/lit/ - Literature

Question on influence anxiety.

I am currently working on a short fiction piece that is easily my most ambitious, and probably best shot at fiction writing yet. I think it has a good sense of unity and reads as something that's more than the sum of its parts.

But at the same time, I look at it and it seems to me glaringly obvious where my influences are. Almost like a Frankenstein's monster of taking from other authors and stories. I do not feel I've especially 'ripped anyone off', at the core of the story is something I've come up with. But I can't help worrying it will just be seen a bunch of fragments of other works cobbled together.

I guess I'm wondering how common it is a writer sees their work as derivative like this. Surely its more obvious to me having a sort of knowledge where things come from. So do people always see works like this? Or if I can easily take it apart and pinpoint where everything has sort of stemmed from does it mean my work is not original enough?

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