Philip Brian Hall
Quite often when I'm reading, a part of my brain sets up a little flag in part of the text and says 'That would make a good story.' Sometimes it's simply a publisher's brief: 'We want stories about such and such by a certain deadline.' That forces the brain into gear and sometimes even if what you write doesn't fit exactly with what the commissioning publisher's looking for you'll find another who will like it.
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