lemme see if i can put my feelings about this into words:

i have always been a very "visual" writer. i've been told that my style is good at evoking imagery, which is what i aim for.

and that comes down to process, i think. my process is very simple.

i imagine a scene. but like an audiovisual scene, like from a movie or tv show. then i describe it.

i really don't think of "words creating worlds". i've already created the world, and my hope is that through my description of it, you'll imagine a similar enough one.

so that begs the question:

would i prefer to be making audiovisual media, instead of literature?

i think the answer is yes, but theres a but.

AV art is much more Difficult to make than writing. and i don't mean that in a Woe Is Me So Tricky :( way

i mean like a large number of other people and money have to be involved

for the level of control i want i'd need to have like an edgar wright level of respect lmao. which i'm not getting.

otherwise there'd have to be constant compromises.

anyway guess which medium i can do solo and with 0 compromise :P

i have fucked around with writing screenplay style in past
(in fact something in a pseudo-screenplay style will probably get released one day)

but even that compromises. i like the wholeness of traditional prose.
i get to choose what to describe and when

so yeah imma stick with writing. and don't even @ me about animation, y'all are wizards and i will never stop being terrified of your medium.

anyway i just wanna take some time to recognise some of the influences i can identify on myself. these aren't exactly shoutouts because all but one are extremely famous and the other one is still very famous but also i think they're all worth checking out.

edgar wright - as mentioned above. i'll never reach the absolute pace of his storytelling with only prose, you need more than that to cram in the level of information that he does, but man i do idolise him lol

derek landy - the one you might not have heard of. author of my favorite book series. the dialogue is super natural, really rapid. vaguely self-aware narration. super visual. incredible fight scenes, if i ever publish anything with a lot of fight scenes you'll definitely smell him on it lmao

roald dahl and jk rowling - lumped together because Yeah I Know. but a) i was raised on them and b) i genuinely think too many people overlook the power of a child-friendly writing style. not that i want any children to read my work, but it's the classic annoying gotcha thing of "if you can't explain a concept in a way a 5 year old would understand, you don't understand it either", bullshit, but a good philosophy

charles dickens - okay i've literally only read a christmas carol but that shit slaps. the narration is so aware of what's important, even despite the paid-by-the-word thing. "marley was dead: to begin with." are you kidding me???? literally gold

william shakespeare - LISTEN SHUT UP OKAY i'm not pretentious enough to say that i feel the influence of a guy who earned the name just The Bard, i just wanna preach about something. you gotta let yourself break the rules. combine words. use words in unique contexts. if there's a grammar rule you don't like, just ignore it. i promise it'll make writing Feel so much better. (though PLEASE PLEASE know the rules before you break them istg)

also sidenote if you've never dabbled in shakespeare because you're intimidated or you think you won't understand DON'T BE he's literally so good. the ones they teach in school are great, romeo and juliet and macbeth. i really recommend just the original text of macbeth but baz luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) for a modern adaptation that uses the original script