Goodreads asked Tabitha Vohn:

How do you get inspired to write?

Tabitha Vohn I'm inspired through some strange channels. The "beast" in my first novel (which is a modern adaptation of Beauty in Beast, black metal style) is based off of one particular song that I discovered while searching around on Youtube one day. I first heard the song as a cover and thought the lyrics were haunting and erotic. I then found the original band. I was obsessed with the song and found the musician quite enigmatic and fascinating. The novel-I swear-literally just channeled through me based on my encounter with the music. I sat down and wrote Part 1 the same afternoon and the rest soon followed. The characters are completely imagined, of course, but based on that song.

Finding What Is originated from listening to the Ego Likeness song (Wolves) and-originally-imagining a young woman with an older lover who loses her mother but is trapped by a sexually menacing guardian, and who is looking to this older lover to save her. I listened to the song and imagined her standing in the rain at her mother's funeral, looking at her lover standing in the distance, who can't go to her because their relationship was secret; initially, that's all I had. Ironically, the novel itself turned out quite different (the older lover didn't even make it into the funeral scene).

Also, aside from people I know, loved, or have met-their "told to me" or imagined stories- like my first novel I often become inspired by a picture, a song, a face, (embarrassed to admit it) even celebrities, and make up characters which share a trait or characteristic that I find intriguing and want to explore further.

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