Goodreads asked Jacob Ian DeCoursey:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jacob Ian DeCoursey In terms of how I come up with a situation to write about, it usually starts with a question: "What if X did Y in Z?"

So maybe it'll be "what if the undead were used as soldiers during the American Civil War?" or "what if a drifter finds a dark entity while locked in the basement of an abandoned farm?" or "what if a church pastor's skin suddenly turned translucent during a Sunday service?"

There are a few ways you can come up with these situations, but my preference as drawing random combinations from a hat.

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