Rosemary Cole
I think this is the question most asked of authors. I believe every writer has multiple ideas for stories inside them. Some of them are old and have been around since childhood. Some are discarded as you grow older, while new ones pop in to join the pack. They simmer and change over time, like a soup, and move around to different burners--back or front. As you grow older, they are fertilized, if you will, by one's life experiences and by the works of others. If you don't have this nest of ideas living inside you, you're probably not cut out to be a writer.
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Rosemary Cole:
Your writing style and ideas about postapocalyptic world remind me very famous in Soviet Union fiction authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Here is their book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16736014-prisoners-of-power I think they have very distinctive style of narrative. And the atmosphere in your book amazingly reminded me their books. My question is: where do you get the inspiration for your ideas?
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