Goodreads asked David Griffiths:

How do you get inspired to write?

David Griffiths I write a lot of short stories, and they can be triggered from a headline in a newspaper or from a half-heard fragment of a conversation on a bus or in a shop. I like to go for walks (often down on the sea-front near where I live) and I often get an idea just from watching the waves, or listening to the wind in the rigging. I think you just need to keep your mind open. Don't let little thought bubbles explode and just drift away. Catch them . . . explore them . . . expand them. Then write about them.

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