What I write : I write post-modern fiction, with an alternating light or heavy skew towards the fantastic. I have written short stories, comics, and short screenplays in this style, and in various genres.
My goals as a writer : I strive to maintain a sense of realism and connection with the characters I create – a good character is a guide to a world, but a great character is a friend in that world. And, naturally, you’ll keep in touch with your friends.
I want to find what is unique, and what is emotionally relevant, in each story. Even the formulaic can be made fresh with the right perspective and attitude.
The writers who’ve influenced my work (in no particular order, or relation to medium) :
Neil Gaiman, Joss Whedon, William Shakespeare, Ed Brubaker, Nick Hornby, Jack Kerouac, Garth Ennis, Miguel de Cervantes Saveedra, Alan Moore, Herman Melville, Grant Morrison, Hunter S. Thompson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Brian K. Vaughan, Warren Ellis, and lastly, for the same reason, Frank Miller and Stephen King.
(The reason being that, while some writers are here for plumbing the depths of humanity without reserve or restraint, the work I like best by these two is in a very, very restrained fashion.)
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Serge // February 8, 2009 at 7:19 am |
S’good list ya got runnin’ there. Any love for, say, Bret Eastion Ellis or Chuck Palahniuk? I always felt they bundled up fairly well together, though Palahniuk’s stuff reads much quicker. I got a feeling Vonnegut would fit in your list pretty snuggly, as well.