Saturday, January 29, 2005

Influences

A friend came to dinner--shrimp, mushroom, onion, asparagus stir fry (chopped tiny, of course) over brown rice with dark choco dipped strawberries afterward (well, one before), and we were talking about influences and aspirations. The difference between writers whose products (AKA finished novels) are inspirational and those whose processes are.

Writers whose finished novels I find motivating include my honey, Annette Curtis Klause, Holly Black, Nancy Werlin, Libba Bray, and M.T. Anderson, among others. Writers whose process I find the same is a subject for another post, or perhaps I should stay mum on the subject. Hm.