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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 135877" data-attributes="member: 67">I'm mostly influenced by other story hours.  (Although, when I run games, I tend to have my players write the story hours.)  I find great inspiration in the story hours I read, and bring it to my table.  If I'm writing a story hour for a game I'm a player in (as I just began to do) I find my writing style to include these same inspirations.  I tend to bring in a little of everybody that I read, but the ones that stand out are more influential, even if I don't precisely immitate them.  For instance, nemmerle, your story hour is very dense--in a good, informative, creative way--and has excellent characterization.  I can't write that densely.  I'll never be able to write that densely, but I can still work on my characters.  (There are some other stories with very good characterization, as well, I merely use yours as an example.) As another example, Paka's story hour helps me to envision what is possible if I use different viewpoints.Basically, to answer the question more briefly, I steal from the locals.</blockquote>