:) That's incredibly flattering. It's probably unusual for writers to take inspiration from musicians like Cage, but he's a truly important influence on my thoughts about space and time and their relationship to art, and one of my favorite composers.

Part of the reason my NaNo metanovel spends a lot of time playing with blank space is because I was joking about figuring out how to count meaningful blank space toward my wordcount (I didn't actually do it, but it inspired me), but a lot of it is trying to replicate effects from music and the visual arts that have moved me.