Talk:Takako Sugiura/@comment-397235-20140621044642/@comment-397235-20140630000557

My biggest influences, bizarrely, are Tom Clancy, Harry Turtledove, and George RR Martin. Not so much in subject matter as stylistic nuances.

Music is good. Usually I listen to film scores (legacy of the days when I used to think anything else was Satanic; yeah...). James Newton Howard is awesome. I've gotten into some classical for my current story. When I'm "brainstorming" (which I seem to be doing a lot more than writing), I listen to music and envision scenes to them (I watch a lot of fan music videos on Youtube; I'm the only person who writes this way). For that, I listen to a lot of loud music (Disturbed, Digital Summer, Black Veil Brides, Chevelle, things like that).

I can't imagine never finishing a book. I own something like 500 (I kid you not); a book has to be awful for me to stop. Another is the second Japanese fiction I've read (the manga, anyway). The first novel I read from that part of the world was Battle Royale, which is like The Hunger Games but older. Oh, and I read the manga for Godzilla Returns but I don't count that one.