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⌈ Secret Post #5079 ⌋

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Re: Writing Questions

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmm. I don't think I've ever "broken down" line for line whatever works I have liked -- I think what I tend to do (and thus avoid plagiarism) is tease out what exactly I liked or found alluring about what the author wrote or the way they wrote it. How do they use the words? Do i like it because they were graphic? how graphic? Or do I prefer that they went into the feelings of both characters or one? These kinds of questions. What kind of language did they use? Is more action based? Emotion based? etc.

Breaking down those components (instead of a line by line transposition) and then applying them (that is, your raw materials, the answers to those questions above, those elements you very much liked) to your own style, and adapting that to the characters and circumstances, you will have something original. In my opinion, anyway.

I've lately been reading some fic where I find I really like the smut this writer makes -- and I ask myself these questions, in order to maybe apply some of that to my own stories. Maybe. I try to consider what is hot to me, what I like, and what I would like to see. And doing it my own way. I don't want to be a copy of this author. She's fabulous. I want to like my own writing too -- influenced by it or not.

If you want to share a passage from something you like and we can work on it here, I'd be happy to show you what I mean!

In any case, good luck!