[Dragaera] Authorial Influences

[Kris Green via Dragaera]

“Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take
stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.”


On 15 January 2017 at 17:31, Corey Reid via Dragaera <
dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:

> Agreed! Stealing someone’s tone is just flattery!
>
> I wrote a DRAGAERA fanfic based on a game that is much more a direct
> rip-off of Brust than yours:
>
> https://medium.com/@barsoomcore/address-28428bf97a16#.qz5dcawur <
> https://medium.com/@barsoomcore/address-28428bf97a16#.qz5dcawur>
>
> Now that DOES involve plagiarism since I stole at least two of his lines
> straight from Vlad books.
>
> core
>
>
> > On Jan 15, 2017, at 11:09 AM, Michele Riccio via Dragaera <
> dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Scott - as for your conclusion, I'm not sure all writer's voices aren't
> a composite of authors they admire blended with the writer's own
> imagination.
> >
> > Humorous beats especially.
> >
> > We write what we 'know' - ie, we know how others have created stories so
> we do what they did. We pick up sentence structure like a child picks up an
> accent. We envision scenarios based on what movies/books we've consumed -
> but memory is a weird thing and what I garner from a book/author will be
> different from what stands out for you (mostly) - so the mix remains unique.
> >
> > Did you read "The Sun the Moon and the Stars" by Brust? It's about a
> bunch of artists and how they create. Also, there is a Hungarian folktale
> tucked in. Anyway - there is a scene where they discuss another artist's
> style 'creeping into' their own. You aren't alone in thinking about how
> one's writing is influenced.
> >
> >
> > I wouldn't worry about plagiarism - there was no blatant copying
> (sounds like an interesting story though)
> >
> > Michele Riccio
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> > On Thu, 1/12/17, Scott Schultz via Dragaera <
> dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: [Dragaera] Authorial Influences
> > To: "'Dragaera List'" <dragaera at dragaera.info>
> > Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017, 11:36 AM
> >
> > For various reasons, I got inspired
> > yesterday to write a fanfic around a
> > game I play a lot. The particular scenario involves a
> > three-way gang war,
> > and a confrontation/negotiation between representatives of
> > two of the
> > factions.
> >
> > After I finished the first writing spell on it, I read the
> > last thing I
> > wrote and then almost laughed out loud.
> >
> > Here's what I wrote:
> >
> > ----
> > "Now, Drixxie, it would be discourteous to drop in
> > unannounced and kill your
> > hosts. We just. disabled them a little."
> >
> > She paused as if thinking for a moment, then shrugged.
> >
> > "Some of them took more 'disabling' than others."
> >
> > Drixx made a mental note to double the current month's
> > infirmary budget and
> > to raise the pay of anybody who had managed to rate some
> > extra "disabling".
> > ----
> >
> > That last sentence made me laugh on re-reading it because I
> > realized I was
> > writing in "Vlad's voice". That was the exactly the kind of
> > thing Steve
> > would have written for Vlad. "Sticks is alive? Double his
> > pay." In fact, I'm
> > going to bet that he wrote that sort of thing more than once
> > in the stories
> > where Vlad is having territorial problems with his
> > neighbors.
> >
> > It's just a throwaway fanfic so I'm not going to worry about
> > whether I'm
> > really "plagiarizing" Steve. I just thought it was
> > interesting that when you
> > have a favorite author  whose stories you've read many
> > times,  that his or
> > her "voice" can start to flow effortlessly out of your
> > fingers as easily as
> > your own.
> >
> > I suppose that professional authors, who are invariably
> > voracious readers as
> > well, have to deal daily with the issue of writing in their
> > own unique
> > "voice" without it being simply a composite of all of the
> > "voices" they've
> > collected from years of being a consumer of fiction.
> >
> >
> >
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