Compare Your Writing Style Against A Favourite Author

You have read everything by a writer you admire and you are trying to absorb something of their rhythm, but you cannot tell if you are getting closer or just imitating badly. This compares your actual sentences against their known style, specifically, not with vague encouragement.

Compare the writing sample I paste below against the general style of {REFERENCE_AUTHOR}, a writer whose prose I admire and am trying to learn from. Assess sentence length and rhythm, use of imagery, dialogue style, and overall pacing. Be specific with examples from my sample rather than giving generic praise or criticism. Where my style diverges from theirs, say plainly whether that divergence is a weakness worth addressing or simply a different, valid choice. Writing sample: {WRITING_SAMPLE}