don't know if the answer is just to not when writing but i am SO impressionable every time i read something good i'm just, "should i change my book to this?" my project was a sparse, immediate third person present voicey angsty lil thing but now i'm like...should it be moby dick instead??
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but yeah, when I'm deep in drafting, unless it's blurbs or ARCs, I try to keep away from books that might be in a similar playground as the thing I'm wading in the weeds with