Goodreads asked Collin Piprell:

How do you get inspired to write?

Collin Piprell Being a fiction writer sensitizes you to finding inspiration almost anywhere. An idea for a character, a bit of color, a snatch of dialogue, an interesting metaphor, and arresting idea or fact — any of these things can in itself feel pregnant with story. Often I have no idea where the words are leading me, yet I’m confident on a gut level that, if only I persevere, the story will emerge.

That makes a good argument for jotting such obervations down and keeping them somewhere to hand.

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