I only read traditional and contemporary award winning novelists. Carnegie Medal and Newbury Medal winners and finalists.
Many of my influences are listed below.
Michael Morpurgo, Sharon Creech, Rosemary Sutcliff, Malorie Blackman, Eva Ibbotson, Henry Treece, Joanne Harris, Anne Fine, Geraldine McCaughrean. Jane Austen, Henry James, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy.Louisa May Alcott, Joseph Conrad.
There are a couple of novelists I read regularly and I suppose I try to write in a similar style, because that's what I prefer to read. I wouldn't want to be exactly the same as either, though, and in any case you tend to unconsciously write in a way that suits you.
Whether the latter counts as 'style', I don't know. Neither am I sure that it 'develops', as I've read. Maybe your individual type of construction just becomes more natural the more you write, but I've not really written enough to find out.
I don't base my work on any author. I am myself. However, I do read a great deal, by many different writers, so I'm sure some of it rubs off on me. I like to think I'm developing my own style, but who knows?
I only read traditional and contemporary award winning novelists. Carnegie Medal and Newbury Medal winners and finalists.
Many of my influences are listed below.
Michael Morpurgo, Sharon Creech, Rosemary Sutcliff, Malorie Blackman, Eva Ibbotson, Henry Treece, Joanne Harris, Anne Fine, Geraldine McCaughrean. Jane Austen, Henry James, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy.Louisa May Alcott, Joseph Conrad.
Learn from the best is my motto.
There are a couple of novelists I read regularly and I suppose I try to write in a similar style, because that's what I prefer to read. I wouldn't want to be exactly the same as either, though, and in any case you tend to unconsciously write in a way that suits you.
Whether the latter counts as 'style', I don't know. Neither am I sure that it 'develops', as I've read. Maybe your individual type of construction just becomes more natural the more you write, but I've not really written enough to find out.
I don't base my work on any author. I am myself. However, I do read a great deal, by many different writers, so I'm sure some of it rubs off on me. I like to think I'm developing my own style, but who knows?