Question: Where Do you Get Your Stories? Answer: Have You Ever stripped Wallpaper?

If you aren't a "writer" it might seem strange to you, this practice we writers have of putting a lot of words on a metaphorical sheet of paper and moving them around to create a story. It might seem almost like magic. When reading a particular book, you might want to ask the author, where the hell did that particular phrasing come from? Why did you give your characters such odd names? And