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digitaldisciplineAuthor Meme
1. Pick 3 authors that have influenced your life
2. Tell what works and why
3. Copy this your journal and fill it out.
1. Stephen King. I first picked up his stuff in college, and enjoyed it immensely. "Needful Things" was the first, but far from the last. My roommate (Steve the Jew) and I were reading his copy concurrently, and took to hiding it so that we could get ahead of one another. I think his influence on my own writing is pretty obvious, both content-wise and stylistically. Yes, his "chick period" was unreadable, as was the last half of the Dark Tower series, but he, as with the other two authors that appear here, is the only author whose work I've had to replace because I wore some of it out from re-reading it so much ("The Stand," "Rage," "The Long Walk").
2. William Gibson. Again, from the "let's state the obvious" department. More than just pioneering the c-punk genre, his style emulates the noise in my head.
3. Carl Sagan. "Cosmos" was "Cosmos" before Hawking wrote "A Brief History of Time." A towering achievement; making astrophysics accessible to a ten-year old. In my world, "Contact" doesn't exist.
1. Pick 3 authors that have influenced your life
2. Tell what works and why
3. Copy this your journal and fill it out.
1. Stephen King. I first picked up his stuff in college, and enjoyed it immensely. "Needful Things" was the first, but far from the last. My roommate (Steve the Jew) and I were reading his copy concurrently, and took to hiding it so that we could get ahead of one another. I think his influence on my own writing is pretty obvious, both content-wise and stylistically. Yes, his "chick period" was unreadable, as was the last half of the Dark Tower series, but he, as with the other two authors that appear here, is the only author whose work I've had to replace because I wore some of it out from re-reading it so much ("The Stand," "Rage," "The Long Walk").
2. William Gibson. Again, from the "let's state the obvious" department. More than just pioneering the c-punk genre, his style emulates the noise in my head.
3. Carl Sagan. "Cosmos" was "Cosmos" before Hawking wrote "A Brief History of Time." A towering achievement; making astrophysics accessible to a ten-year old. In my world, "Contact" doesn't exist.
