teddyhipstervelt asked: orange and green :)
Hello! Fellow writer/avid appreciation of writerosity are we? (:
My biggest inspirations are Neil Gaiman, Markus Zusak, Sylvia Plath, and Shel Silverstein. Silverstein’s books were the first books I remember intently loving; probably read em at around five or six (only time I’ve ever been advanced in my life). When I read ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’, my poetry became written more often and decidedly Silverstein-like. Markus Zusak has this endearing and wordgasmtastic style that I can just eat right up like peach ice cream——it is MARVELLOUS. His characters are offhand and quirky and earnest and his books made me cry, I jest you not. Sylvia Plath’s poetry always has a welcome place in my heart, and I was weirdly attracted to her work in ‘The Bell Jar’—-I found myself identifying with this old library book and this girl who I found an odd reflection of myself (until the end…); really the first book I’ve read from older decades that I pursued intently. Neil Gaiman is just lovely, just wonderful…not enough adjectives in the world for him. Again, characters, what I really love, are his specialty. That and a world-weary and witty sort of style with paragraphs that aren’t too long or too short and fourth-wall-breaking and darkness and grittiness and love, and I’m sold on his work forever (except American Gods. Did not like.) Funnily enough, those four are who I see most reflected in my work. I try for the earnest, each-sentence-is-a-taste flavour of Zusak while aiming for the darkness and frivolity of Gaiman’s characters, and Silverstein-ian and Plath-ian poetry sometimes creeps into my rhymes and thoughts.
God I just love words. Don’t you?
Thanks for the question!
