I write best when I see something that fires me up. Either, i saw old people being inlove, someone being bullied, someone being sick,anger. All emotions. I try to be on their shoes and words come through--like rivers of water. If I cling to my emotions my brain isn't functioning so i write with my heart. And I don't care about technicalities. As long as it's relatable them I'm fine with it. Words are words. You give meaning to it.

Ideas -- for me -- can come from virtually anywhere, anything, and even anyone. I get many of my ideas from the following: other books, movies, songs, conversations with other people, history, my own thoughts, etc. The list of where writers get ideas is infinite, and at times silly.

Bur the important thing is that writers GET ideas to write, and that they can infuse those ideas with important issues and opinions.

- Michael Hall

People watching. Personal emotion. Movies. Books. Music. Dreams.

Often, I see a person and one moment will spark an idea in me. Not just an idea, but an entire story.

I sometimes dream ideas into reality. I've always done this. It's weird and a little crazy, but my first novel was based off a scene in a dream that I had. It's like I dream in film.

Music is such a big part of my idea process. I speak in lyrics a lot. A certain lyric or song title will create an entire story for me.

And of course, my own emotion. Whatever I'm feeling, experiencing in that moment.

Writing has often been my linguistic photography. Up until my 34th birthday, I started doing some real traveling, I barely ever took photographs. That forced me to write pieces that had specific memories attached to them. Reading them over uploaded the same remembrances that flipping through an old photo album do.

Now I photograph regularly, and so my writing has adjusted. It has become more an art than the science it used to be.

My recent method for ideas taps into my empathic nature. I have been writing pieces trying to use the point of view of others. Even if it's about things we have in common, just having a second voice in your head massages the imagination. Ever read a poem "written" by a dog? Same technique, just dialed down.