Category: Alan’s Influences
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The Writers and Stories I Love, and Why My Novel Isn’t Really Like Them
Every writer is shaped by other writers. That is not laziness. That is lineage. We all read stories that leave fingerprints on us. We carry their rhythms, their courage, their imagination, and their questions. Sometimes they influence our prose. Sometimes they influence our structure. Sometimes they simply remind us what kind of honesty, wonder, or…