T-Rex: Advice writers get is always "read a lot! You gotta read a lot!" And it's like, sure, but if you read a lot of Steinbeck then you'll end up sounding like Steinbeck! Read a lot of Vonnegut and guess what? Now you sound like Vonnegut!
T-Rex: So it goes!
T-Rex: So what is a brilliant AND YET INEXPERIENCED writer to do, hmm?
Dromiceiomimus: I guess you could do what everyone else has done, which is read a lot of different writers and by so doing synthesize your own voice from the best parts of everything you've encountered??
T-Rex: OH DANG
Utahraptor: Hah! So much for your little rant!
T-Rex: So it goes, Utahraptor!
Utahraptor: Also, there is more to sounding like Vonnegut than saying "So it goes". That's just from one story.
T-Rex: Guess what? Everything you just said WASN'T beautiful, and some of it hurt!
Utahraptor: That - that's also from the same story.
T-Rex: Well, poo.
T-Rex: ...
T-Rex: ...tee-weet
