HordHolm
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George MacDonald Fraser, for the sense of structuring a story, and action leading on to more action.
Gabriel Chevallier (if you haven't read the absurdist Clochmerle then I highly recommend it) for the realisation, at age about 16 or 17, that a story could be packed with ridiculous details, and be effectively about very little indeed, and the characters could nonetheless be at each others throats as they surf through life on a wave of misunderstanding. Oh, and it's funny, too.
And Onehitwanda for her prose. I am currently working on stuff that, by its nature, has to be a bit overstuffed. But I'm looking forward to stripping all that back and trying, as she succeeds in doing, to build an image in a sentence (whereas I need a paragraph and still don't capture it) when I start working on stuff that isn't Victorian.
Gabriel Chevallier (if you haven't read the absurdist Clochmerle then I highly recommend it) for the realisation, at age about 16 or 17, that a story could be packed with ridiculous details, and be effectively about very little indeed, and the characters could nonetheless be at each others throats as they surf through life on a wave of misunderstanding. Oh, and it's funny, too.
And Onehitwanda for her prose. I am currently working on stuff that, by its nature, has to be a bit overstuffed. But I'm looking forward to stripping all that back and trying, as she succeeds in doing, to build an image in a sentence (whereas I need a paragraph and still don't capture it) when I start working on stuff that isn't Victorian.