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Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:13:26 2019 No.12476680 [Reply] [Original]

>read Dickens
>write like Dickens
>read Dostoevsky
>write like Dostoevsky
>read Zola
>write like Zola

how do I get rid of this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:15:30 2019 No.12476695 >read OP >start sucking dicks oh god it’s gotten to me too (p.s. this is my first post on /lit/)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:23:14 2019 No.12476740 >>12476680 No idea, but I know what you're talking about.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:25:30 2019 No.12476755 >>12476680 dude YES. I feel you. I read Saint Augustine and his style is fairlt easy to emulate. When I realised I was writing like him in my diary so yeah that is a thing

Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:28:14 2019 No.12476777

>>12476680

As you learn to cultivate your own voice you may subsequently learn to protect yourself from unwanted influence. What I think many writers do unconsciously is subject themselves to be influenced by whatever they read if the prose is stylized well, and you have to actively resist doing this by recalling what your own voice is before you start writing, and learning how to consume literature without letting it dictate your own artistry. It's a process for those (like myself) who've had this issue, but it'll be overcome as you discover yourself. Similar to how someone can insult you and you can choose to not take it personally, but may unconsciously at times allow yourself to take it personally and get your feelings hurt, you can read without letting it influence your writing if you're conscious of it, or you may unconsciously allow it to.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:28:17 2019 No.12476779 read more. you're like 19, shut up and read for another 5 years

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:29:56 2019 No.12476791 Read Proust

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:32:36 2019 No.12476801 >>12476755 I want to read your diary.

Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:33:35 2019 No.12476805

just have your own style retard, its fine to base it somewhat off another (Mann read Wilhelm Meister 5x while writing Tonio Kroger, but you have to know how far you are in their style and reign it back, its not bad to crank a first draft out quickly in an easy style your comfy with and the. tune it back to your own

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:35:15 2019 No.12476817 That’s fine for now; you should be experimenting with new styles but I wouldn’t recommend reading anything when you come write something serious.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:36:46 2019 No.12476825 >>12476680 assuming you don’t mean plagiarize you’re a good reader I’m going to remember to pick up the style of the writer when reading

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:43:45 2019 No.12476866 >>12476791 Why him?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 19:55:35 2019 No.12476930 >>12476680 If you are aware of it it is honestly not such a bad thing. You can practice how to write in different ways so that when you find your own voice it will be able to come across better.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 20:23:05 2019 No.12477072 >>12476680 now do Virgil and write a modern epic about Mexico City

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 20:23:58 2019 No.12477076 Aping Nabokov is a great way to make top-tier shitposts. If you want to go down in copypasta history, just channel your inner Nabby.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 20:37:10 2019 No.12477146 >>12476866 because you want to write like him

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 20:39:55 2019 No.12477157 >>12476866 meme answer: because then you'll write like a pseud actual answer: because he experimented with different prose styles in his earlier works and it is interesting to compare

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 20:47:29 2019 No.12477193 >>12476755 >literally "my diary desu"

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 20:56:41 2019 No.12477230 always try to keep something from every author you read and accumulate styles thus forming your own style by deliberate choice of what you really like about them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 21:06:32 2019 No.12477272 >I become influenced by great artists >How do i stop this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 21:07:20 2019 No.12477273 >>12476755 Pretty sure saint Augustine didn't use terms like Yeah and dude

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 21:09:26 2019 No.12477282 >>12477273 Depends on the translator.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 23:16:15 2019 No.12477845 >>12476680 Keep code switching between Ballard / Gira in my short stories and McCarthy in my longer stuff

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 23:20:10 2019 No.12477855 >read numerous authors >still write like a schizophrenic wowee

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 02:11:58 2019 No.12478447 >>12476680 Read so much more that you become a hybrid of all voices. Or just submit to your inability to distinguish your own style and instead attempt to evolve your favorites you have adopted

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 04:55:22 2019 No.12478779 >>12476680 NPC syndrome. Cant get rid of it anon

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 05:15:51 2019 No.12478835 >>12476695 Welcome! Introduce yourself in the sticky and tell us all about the books you like and your other hobbies :)

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