Is scribbling genetically inherited?

[Jehane]

To-day I recieved my late aunt's papers in the mail - as I am considered the only family member who would be remotely interested in her scribblings. As I was reading through her book I was struck by similarities in cadence & structure that sound remarkably like my own work. Has anyone else experienced something similar? I know my writing is like neither of my parents so I was quite startled to see how alike my aunt & I were even on paper. (& yes we were alike in personality & temperment.)

 

[Tariel]

I was reading my aunt's book and found that several of her characters were exceptionally similar to some of my own...Jynx is like Tariel, Taj like Fuingul. The actual style isn't all that similar...but....yeah

 

[Jehane]

Weird. If I didn't know better I'd'a thought I'd written some of this stuff.

 

[Lessien]

Wow. I don't know many of my relatives who write (and most of them aren't big fans of fantasy), so I wouldn't know.

 

[Jehane]

We don't write about the same sorts of things; my aunt was no lover of fantasy. It's more a question of stylistic similiarities.

 

[Lessien]

Oh. Hardly anyone else that I know of in my family writes. Except for my dad, and he's usually too busy to write anything after work.