Goodreads asked Alan Veale:

How do you get inspired to write?

Alan Veale In the case of 'The Murder Tree' it was by reading someone else's book, but anything can prompt that eternal question 'What if...?' When I first started penning scripts around my work colleagues I was inspired by the characters and personalities around me. I just wanted them to laugh, and I created a courtroom drama and cast them as defendant, prosecutor, jury, police etc. So I can be inspired by people just as much as by ideas for a plot.

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