A writer to emulate

I try to use different styles of writing for different stories. Now, I'm sure I have a basic, subconscious style limited by my vocabulary, language and brain power. But, overall, I try to not sound the same from short story to short story, unless I'm maybe when I'm using a serial character.

However, for my trilogy of novels, I have a style I try to keep flowing throughout.

And now I think I've found a writer I somewhat emulate, though not necessarily intentionally.

I'm talking about David Gemmell. I'm not saying I'm as good a writer as Gemmell, because for one thing he had much more experience than myself. And, I've only read a third of a novel by him and nothing more. But so far, as I make my way through "Waylander," I see a writer after my own heart when it comes to style.

There's not a lot of exposition. There's basically action and dialogue, which is what I am trying to do with my trilogy.

I've never felt comfortable comparing myself to any professional novelist until now, but that's because I had not run across another writer who I felt wrote in the way I do, or at least in the way I try to write. I considered Salvatore and Glen Cook, but those didn't really fit (Cook was close), but now I've got Gemmell.

I think I'll be reading a lot more David Gemmell in the future. Too bad he's no longer with us.