User blog comment:Spookyboo/What Gives You Inspiration for a Topic?/@comment-26030957-20170922151337

Everything and anything. Once you've trained your mind to speculate it's really hard to turn it off, much to the chagrin of those around you. Often times I'm asked why I'm staring off into space with an odd look on my face.

Mostly it's situations I see arising. Imagining a character with some quirky goal, then the obstacles which stand in their way, how they face them and how the challenge changes them. Anything can spark it, from an old shoe on the side of the highway to the smirk on the lips of some customer at the supermarket.

BTW, "a giant isopod that took over the person's tongue and somehow kept the person alive until their minds melded"? Very nice.