Gabriel Walker asked Alan Moore:

As an aspiring author, I've started and stopped many stories I've wanted to write. How do you keep your focus on your work? Also what inspired The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman?

Alan Moore Well, The League was inspired by being about ten years into the work on Lost Girls with Melinda, a work bringing together three fictional characters for the purposes of pornography, and belatedly thinking “You know, I suppose you might be able to do the same thing with an adventure series.” Your other question is more difficult, and I can probably best answer in terms of kabbalah. In kabbalah’s circuit-board for the human personality, the Tree of Life, the sphere at the bottom of the central pillar, Malkuth, represents the whole of your material world and existence. The sphere immediately above that, the lunar sphere of Yesod, represents your faculty for imagination and dream. The sphere above that, the golden, solar sphere of Tiphereth, represents your highest self, and your will. Clearly, having an imagination isn’t enough: only when our trained and developed will is brought to bear upon our imagination will we have the ability to bring our immaterial ideas down and manifest them in this physical reality. My advice is to start with something small and well-defined, ideally a short story. Whether it is good or bad is unimportant: it represents you starting to do the mental exercise and building up your immaterial muscles until you have the ability to bring a bigger, better idea down into manifestation. This may sound like a simplistic answer, but I can assure you that some version of this simple process is responsible for bringing everything you’ve ever read, looked at or listened to into being.

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