When I first read it I thought what darkhaloangel said, about the cliche but I think it probably just was badly worded and just meant for us to...
Usually a character just comes to me, comes knocking on the door into my head and rents a space. At first there's only fragments, pictures or...
What compells you to write? Music. Small flashes of ideas. Reading good quotes. Sometimes it can be browsing some random article at Wikipedia....
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