tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post5824074571052829496..comments2023-12-31T20:43:08.499-05:00Comments on THE STILETTO GANG: Subliminal PlagiarismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-42859566257620174982009-09-26T13:21:16.795-04:002009-09-26T13:21:16.795-04:00Great blog and I love the left-overs analogy. When...Great blog and I love the left-overs analogy. When I'm in full writing mode (i.e. writing from terror - deadline approaching) I only read non-fiction. It's as if my mind can only handle one imaginary world at a time. But - I agree with Rachel, when I'm reading other authors work, I am (hopefully) engrossed in their character's lives and not thinking about my book at all. <br />I'm on my 4th book at the moment and I admit to finding it hard to keep everything fresh. Are there REALLY that many murders in my fictional town of Gipping-on-Plym?Hannah Dennisonhttp://www.hannahdennison.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-10267345691825759472009-09-25T11:35:53.027-04:002009-09-25T11:35:53.027-04:00Great hearing from all of you. Thanks for these n...Great hearing from all of you. Thanks for these neat comments. Marilyn, I'd like to try your idea sometime. Get a bunch of writers together with a single plot prompt and see what everyone comes up with in a thousand words. It'd be worth it just to see David write in all his literary styles at the same time. :-)Rachel Bradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10543659454210547858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-46571808458577250312009-09-25T10:17:28.844-04:002009-09-25T10:17:28.844-04:00Frankly, I think we could all be given the same pl...Frankly, I think we could all be given the same plot and the books we wrote would be very different.<br /><br />By the way, your blog made me laugh. Thanks for writing it. <br /><br />Marilyn<br />http://fictiionforyou.comMarilyn Meredith a.k.a. F. M. Meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04179984154939161530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-54909010387317344132009-09-25T10:14:14.551-04:002009-09-25T10:14:14.551-04:00Michael Connelly calls it "cross-fertilizatio...Michael Connelly calls it "cross-fertilization," (not to be confused with trying to grow crosses in your garden) which maybe a more clinical and less cynical assessment of the issue. Everything we see, read, hear, consider affects in some way, though mostly it's chaff in the wind. I actually seek out cross-fertilization. If I feel my descriptive passages are weak I will read Barry Lopez. If my dialogue needs improving, Elmore Leonard. If my sentences are too long and rambling, Hemingway. Subliminally, my unaware "mentors" help me get back on track. I don't worry that someone is going to read something I wrote and say, "OMG, this is exactly like The Sun Also Rises and Get Shorty." But I wish they would. I wish to hell they would.David Hansardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-5129336062656287022009-09-25T08:30:17.579-04:002009-09-25T08:30:17.579-04:00I don't read mysteries while I'm writing e...I don't read mysteries while I'm writing either, but since I haven't been writing...well, you see where I'm going here. But mainly I don't read others' works because I'm afraid of losing my "voice." I don't want Alison to sound like one of my other favorite writer's main characters or do things that would be out of character for her. So I stick to the Daily News ("New York's Hometown Paper!") and my favorite blogs. <br /><br />Rachel, great blog, as always! Can't wait to see you at Crime Bake. There'd better be a glass of wine in our schedule so we can catch up. MaggieDea, Kia, Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343657178001614404noreply@blogger.com