Losing your voice to another writer
Some prose styles are so powerful they can take over your own.
Read it on Guardian today.
It’s quite interesting as I myself have experienced it one time too many.
The following quote is especially true and amusing. :)
Their prose’s rhythms and vocabulary wrap around my subconscious, leading me to produce these daft approximations whenever I sit down and try to write for myself. The results are generally frustrating. It’s annoying to lose your own natural voice. It’s even more infuriating to realise that the pastiche sentences you’re writing are nothing like as good as the originals.