Stories and worries. Usually, these days, it's stories that start whirling around up in my head. I start thinking about a character, and then his background, and the character that could play the part of his enemy or best friend, and it goes on and on from there. The setting starts developing, and before I know it, there's a little bit of a plot.
Worries was a bigger factor when I was younger. I worried about this person dying, and that person getting sick, and me getting cancer. I was, when I was really little, concerned that terrorists were going to invade our house, and made my father check the basement for them a few times. I try not to have so many worries now, and just take the line J.K. Rowling gave Rubeus Hagrid in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire": "What's comin' will come and we'll meet it when it does."
