Goodreads asked Matt Spencer:

How do you get inspired to write?

Matt Spencer Everything connects to, inspires, comments on, informs upon everything else...and the answers to "Daddy, where do stories come from?" is all over the place therein. There's no telling what'll turn out to be a story idea, what it'll turn into once you start typing with that idea in mind, or once it starts taking shape, what other factors will pop up to inform upon it. Something you saw or read in the news. Some life-changing memory, distant or recent, that you feel the compulsion to process artistically somehow. Some random event/conversation/incident you happened to witness/glimpse/participate in the other day that made your storyteller mind go "Hmmmmm..." Some book or movie you watched or read with a given genre-element/troupe/whathaveyou that made you think, "So what might happen if I tried my own take on that, put my own stamp on it? Let's find out." Whatever music I'm currently listening to is always a big one for me. You never know. It's all potential material.

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