Goodreads asked Paul DeBusschere:

How do you get inspired to write?

Paul DeBusschere I'm always finding inspiration for ideas in strange ways. It's just the way my mind works. I will take something that is perceived as normal in our society and take it to a logical extreme and see if that results in something interesting.

For example, a common thought I have is what would it be like if we took a commercial with a talking animal and put it in a real life situation. How would people really react if a stuffed teddy-bear really started talking to them when opening a bag of bathroom tissue? Well, they would probably freak out and kill it, which might have repercussions for the human race, etc. That is one, admittedly off-the-wall, example.

I also read quite a bit of non-fiction and I am always making parallels between our society and those of the past. This inspires me to write about the possible and probable consequences of where our society is heading.

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