Reincarnated writers

What if the writer you're channeling isn't dead yet?

(of course, being a horror writer, i could *fix* that... )

I don't know that I could claim to be reincarnated from anybody, though I'd be willing to be the second coming of several of them. Like Phillip K Dick, or Raymond Chandler.

She's not my favorite author or anything, but if I'm someone's reincarnated spirit, it's probably Louisa May Alcott. Is that corny or What?

I'm the reincarnation of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Can't help it. Just am.

Our style has evolved since the 20's, of course, but we can't help being who we are.

Definitely Dorothy Parker.

I could also be Jack Kerouac.

I'm not sure.

Their lives overlapped, though, so we can't be all three of us...

If you can be reincarnated if you've been born while the writer is still alive, I'd hope I'm Raymond Carver. Otherwise I am most likely a haberdasher. Check this out:

"What size do you take? Nine? I think we have that..."

Travis Tea.

I might be Raymond Chandler as well. I know that if I read something by Chandler I will often start writing in his style, without intending or wanting to. At times like those I even start talking like one of his characters.

At night, if I get to waxing poetic, I could be Antoine de Saint Exupéry. I used to fly too.

I should be so lucky as to channel Diana Gabaldon...

If I'm dead already, why aren't I famous?

Oh, to be so blessed as to be Frances Hodgson Burnett recycled, of course retaining all the genius writing. No childhood is complete without The Secret Garden and The Little Princess.

I wrote a 286 page novel at age 12, and entitled it The Sun Will Rise Again (and I still have it in a manuscript box in my hope chest, just not the courage to actually read it) and people teased me that I must be the reincarnation of Ernest Hemingway, because of his novel (which I'd never heard of at that age) The Sun Also Rises, plus, we have the same birthday.

I found it unfunny when I grew up and found out he'd blown his head off.

Great thread, great fun! Thank you. : )

I've been to Hemingway's house in Key West. Oh, just to live in Key West, even in a houseboat, eating Jimmy Buffett's cheeseburgers in paradise and visiting margaritaville.

"I blew out my flip-flop
Stepped on a pop-top
Cut my heel had to cruise on back home
But there's booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on ..."

Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffett

Loved the polydactal Hemingway cats. In the backyard, there's a concrete sidewalk block full of six-toe paw prints dried into it.

Em

HP Lovecraft!

Just kidding. I don't have knowledge of enough authors to compare my writing style to theirs. Lovecraft was sure wordy, though.

In grad school, I was accused of purposefully writing like DH Lawrence, but I really want to be Anthony Trollope reincarnated.

Well I'd like the confidence of Thucydides, Mr. "I write for all time..." who said that over two millennia ago.

Fun question!

For me- Emily Bronte. No doubt. Of course, she's most famous for Wuthering Heights, but her poetry really speaks to me. Also, from bios I've read about her- she sounds a hell of a lot like me. We have very similar astrological charts. Yeah- I actually did hers to compare.

Cool question. I don't know who I'd be, but I once had someone refer to one of my stories as the "Jane Austen of fantasy." I think they meant it as a compliment, but given that fantasy is a genre that likes big action and not mundane people and relationships, it didn't come off as one.

Some dead unknown pulp hack writer, I'd wager.

Some nobody, most likely. I'm never lucky enough to be re-incarnated by someone big. I'm the one who ended up driving a school bus after selling five short stories to pulp magazines, to never be heard from again (though my work had a certain brilliance to it.)

Just please, don't let me be a reincarnated Henry James.

Jorge Luis Borges; if I am not, I really really wish it... (not so far from Shakespeare 2.0)

Albert Camus, of course

How does it end that unfinished manuscript you had when you died, Al?

Ou preferez-vous que je te questione en français?

Tennessee Williams.