#also it means that authors like stephanie meyer and poppy z brite claim to have never read anne rice | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sofipitch · 9 months ago

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I will say, I don't understand the compulsion to claim anytime a writer used to write fanfic that they repurposed their fanfic. Like read like 3 things by the same author and you'll realize authors have their things, characters and plotlines they like, words or metaphors they prefer. It can often be an intimate experience where you start to get the sense of what is haunting that author. Yes their works may look similar but they are in fact written by the same person, enjoy getting to know them. And furthermore I hate the culture of artists having to pretend art doesn't inspire other art without fearing accusations of plagiarism

#also it means that authors like stephanie meyer and poppy z brite claim to have never read anne rice #and i a) just don't believe that and b) if they were influenced it would be so interesting to ask what they liked #vs maybe what they wanted to challenge/do differently #but you can't have those convos about inspiration bc of litigiousness #i mean look up most contemporary authors and they'll mostly list classics authors as their inspiration #i always wondered how much is due to not wanting to be accused of copying if they admit inspiration by a contemporary #i'm not saying it can't be genuine that they love dickens but it really just rarely is someone more recent

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