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Hey, Justaguy. Have you ever read Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Keset? Your story is very similar in style. Nope. Never heard of it. Should I take that as a compliment??? lol By the way. Thanks for taking the time to read it. :-) It's a compliment, but it's also unfortunate, because some may have read both and think you borrowed his style directly from the book.If you take into consideraton what my creative writing professor said, that you can never write anything original because of the vast wealth of fiction out there, then it's really no big deal. Even if you haven't read it, or done it on purpose, someone has written something similar. He even went as far as to suggest that if we couldn't think of something to write about, take a plot from a book you enjoyed and reword it making some changes in it's direction here and there. Ya know. I actually asked someone about this. One of the major problems I had with what I was doing was that everything I wrote, wound up sounding like something I have read. That very wise man told me that it's actually alright for that to happen because every writer has had influences. I have read a wide range of books and there is no way I would be able to stop some of the writing styles I have seen from creeping into my writing. No matter how much I would want to avoid it. There was a character named Lee in Sometimes a Great Notion that was paranoid. His fear would speak to him like it was a seperate entity arguing with him and his calm side, interjected throughout the tha action and dialog, the same way your character's was, kinda jagged. Not bad though. It was jagged on purpose. Well.mine is a little different in the fact that it's not multiple voices, it's just one voice and the other " thoughts " are basically him replying to himself. If that makes any sense...lol I wish I had the same motivation you do. I can't seem to do any writing without a deadline hanging over my head. Good thing I'm gonna start back to college, taking a writing class or two. I'm looking forward to getting some work down on paper. The very first part that you saw was written well over a year ago. After I got that written, I completely stalled because of the thing I mentioned before. I didn't want to be seen as a plagarest ( sp? ) because my story wasn't completely original sounding. Last night, after a week or so of wrestling with my head, and some prodding from friends ( for which I am VERY grateful ) I opened up the file last night and found that the story actually wanted to GO. The worst part of listening to critics is that some of thier opinions aren't worth listening to, and seem to have no purpose other than bitching, but any writer has to listen and contemplate what's offered. You're never going to make everyone happy, and you'll never get anything accomplished if you try, so choose your audience and write for them. Critics are critics. I think they are just pissed because they don't have the ability to actually DO what they are criticizing. I hope that my two cents was taken with a grain of salt and not resented. Just the opinion of one guy. No worries, dude. I appreciate input from all angles. :-) |
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