 The Tachtigers instead insisted that style must match content, and that intimate and visceral emotions can only be expressed using an intimate and visceral writing style.For guidance in this effort, they tended to draw inspiration from Shakespeare, and from the then recent Impressionist painters and Naturalist writers.After "De Gids" continued to reject most of their submissions, the Tachtigers founded their own competing literary journal, mockingly called "De Nieuwe Gids" ("The New Guide"), first published in October 1885.