Goodreads asked Bob Bello:

How do you get inspired to write?

Bob Bello Sometimes it's dreams, other times it's daydreams, but most of the time it's just real memories brewing in my dead with fictionalized settings. Such as, what might've happened if this or that took place differently, or if he or she made a different choice and took another turn, etc. As Hemingway put it, "Always write from personal experience, or people will know that you're faking it." That might not be a good advice to sci-fi writers like me. However, even in sci-fi I always write about things that had happened to me. I call that "firsthand writing."

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