How do you get inspired to write?

Dan Gallagher With regard to most of my fiction: I am fascinated by cryptozoology and natural science, especially anthropology paleontology and genetics. That said, please note that am a skeptic of most reports of cryptids... most. I know that science has discovered that genetic traits are chemically marked for dormancy and can be made to express, including personality genes and fantastic ancient attributes, such as saber teeth in cats. I know also that there exists exactly one prophecy that, in one form or another, is common to the mainstreams of nearly all religions and myth traditions: Some form or regeneration of humanity and the animal kingdom, essentially a return of Eden. Between actual genetic research and certain natural phenomena, such a resurrection is can be physically manifested. While I am skeptical of my own scenarios, my stories are based upon is real genetics (including a cascade of lineal change rather than modification of a single animal or human, a process I call the "cascade") and real prophecy. The Pleistocene Redemption, first positing this in 1996, was the first book to ever describe the "cascade" though a few have either copied aspects or independently derived them. So, as I improved it over the last 20+ years, some flippant "literary professionals" dismissed my story premise as having been done before. I could only smirk. Liberty Island Media and I are working to have the last laugh on this!

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