: Re: How do I break away from imitating published works? I don't know if other people wanting to be writers experience this, but I get driven by my obsession. It used to be Hunger Games, then

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If you don't want to look like you're following a fad, then read lots of stuff that's been around so long that it's in the public domain.

I also recommend reading stuff outside of the genre in which you intend to work.

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Specifically, books like Les Miserables, Don Quixote, The Three Musketeers, anything by Shakespeare, and so forth. You may remember some of it as "the stuff they made us read in school." There's a reason they picked those particular works; in spite of your teacher telling you it's good, it actually is good.

If you have a mobile device, download a free books app (there are a few of them), and then use it to read all of the free novels you can scare up.

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