Goodreads asked Daniel Quentin Steele:

How do you get inspired to write?

Daniel Quentin Steele I'm inspired in a variety of ways. Sometimes an idea will literally pop into my head from my subconscious. I've written short stories inspired by a comment on a talk show, by movies, by other stories and novels. Paintings have inspired me to write, as have songs. I seem to get more ideas from county songs than any other, why I don't know. Twisted words have turned into stories. I was thinking about dairy farmers one day and somehow that got twisted into "diary farmers" and that turned into a fantasy about a literal 'diary farmer.' An old, old comedy routine by Dick Shawn titled (and sung) "Don't Sit Down, Oh No No No No No, Don't Sit Down," about a defense lawyer's advice to his client facing the electric chair became what may well be one of the filthiest - in its literal sense - stories I've ever heard of. But it was a straight SF story. Someday I hope to see if published somewhere. So, anything can be grist for my literary mill.

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