Goodreads asked Garry Ocean:

How do you get inspired to write?

Garry Ocean Growing up, I was an avid sci-fi reader. When my son was born, my wife and I took turns in telling him bedtime stories. She was reading him fairy tales, while I was telling him the stories I made up from scratch (because I always forgot them by the time I needed to tell them again). At first, I was giving him my interpretation of the most interesting stories from my favorite sci-fi writers, but because he was asking more and more of new stories, I had to start coming up with my own sci-fi plots. My wife once heard one of those stories and suggested that I should write it down. At first, I didn’t take it seriously, remembering her joke that as soon as I started narrating our son immediately falls asleep. But then I decided to try. This is how I first wrote several short and long stories, and then I started working on The Forbidden World series.

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