Thom Quist
Short answer: I live my life.
Most of my inspiration for story ideas come when I am trying to sort out struggles that I'm having in my own life. I'll imagine conversations that I need to have, or analyze conversations I have had, and in the process they morph into stories with characters with an entirely different problem set than I am having.
The other part of my inspiration comes from reading. You can't be a good writer if you never read, and the more you read, the more you start thinking like a writer.
Most of my inspiration for story ideas come when I am trying to sort out struggles that I'm having in my own life. I'll imagine conversations that I need to have, or analyze conversations I have had, and in the process they morph into stories with characters with an entirely different problem set than I am having.
The other part of my inspiration comes from reading. You can't be a good writer if you never read, and the more you read, the more you start thinking like a writer.
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