Seven Degrees Left of Center

The great pretender.

One of my recent writing challenges is the feeling of being a fraud. Everything I write reads like something I have read before. Though the thoughts are mine, the words seem ... copied.

Even in the books I read, I find similarities in scene descriptions. Is this just a stage in learning how to write? By noticing these similarities, I'm learning more about the craft.

This has become frustrating. How to tell my story, my why, yet using the same dictionary of words as everyone else.