Not every writer has to have at least one bookseries they've been obsessed with since childhood/adolescence, but it sure does help to have a voice to try and mimic, a standard to compare your growth and progress to
For me that's The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold; a space opera/fantasy series starting in the eighties and currently ongoing. I have yet to meet a single fucking person online who's heard of it independent of my gushing about it, but that's half the fun, I get to sell people on it like I would my other hyperfixations, like bionicle or sonic or marathon, or half-life 2's barely-explored world, or the korps
You SHOULD read Vorkosigan, if you like what I write. I will admit freely that my style is heavily influenced by Bujold's, especially how I write romance, though she's still teaching me new things about how to describe places, and things, and clothes. God, I wish I could write visual descriptions with a little more consistency, but like anything with writing that takes heaps of practice.
I'm just glad people seem to like my practice as much as my finished work.
this post brought to you by day 3 of being on 20 mg of vyvanse

