Goodreads asked P.K. Silverson:

How do you get inspired to write?

P.K. Silverson I used to know the answer to this question, but the decision to write full time precludes the original answer. Starting out as a copywriter in advertising, it was easy to be inspired... no copy, no paycheck. Branching into fiction was pure self defense... a means to express something larger than next Saturday's in-store savings. When the first screenplay I optioned was being discussed with a development exec, he gave me the choice of selling the project to him outright or doing the rewrite on spec for 15 times the sale-only price. I jumped at the rewrite, which turns out to have been a grave error, as the screenplay never made it to the screen and the option money wouldn't buy a king size candy bar in today's market. A better question may be: Where does inspiration come from to start a writing project? This answer is easy: It comes from listening. Good ideas are everywhere. You can talk through them or over them or around them, or you can pay attention both to what you and others might be saying. Anything and everything is fodder for imagination.

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