User blog comment:Doom Vroom/Inspiration/@comment-25052433-20150506012752

Well, I have been trying my hand at writing since I was a kid, and I can tell you that at that time, video games were a large influence for me. I wrote short stories in notebooks about such elements as Maniac Mansion (old NES and ROM game), Mortal Kombat and Mario Brothers. They were all awful by today's standards of writing, but at the time I am sure I thought they were great.

As far as modern influences, well, writers like Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft are a heavy inspiration to a lot of my work here on this wiki. Sometimes movies and television will help kickstart my writing. The Following, a series starring Kevin Bacon that comes on right now is really awesome and gets my creative juices flowing.

I suppose I would have to go through each of my stories one by one to explain the specific inspiration, as there is no blanket answer. Needless to say though, if something, or someone, happens to kick me into writing gear, I try to sit down and start creating as soon as I can, to take full advantage of the moment.