User blog comment:Anarchic Operations/Sources of Inspiration/@comment-27012445-20160618052419

Inspiration is a strange little thing. It comes from all sorts of places. For me, an entire plot can come from an image that caught my attention or a phrase that strikes me as interesting. Sometimes, other peoples works can inspire me sometimes, but more than not. I become too distracted with not copying that story. However, other people's works are very important to me in learning new styles of dialect or methods of descriptions. For example, my favorite style of prose is that seen in "The Number of Darkness" None of my stories resemble that plot but I do rely on that particular story as a guide on how one would speak from that time period, which it brilliantly does to perfection.