What influences your writing?

Everything.

In response to the question: what influences your writing?

My writing is influenced by the world around me. As I seem to always be writing dystopian societies, it would be fair to turn to one of my main influences: politics, especially today.

Now I do follow politics, and of this I consider myself proud. Doing what I'm supposed to. But I like to look at constructions of governments and such, and blow different portions or ideas out of proportion.

Other times, I'll be in an old building, and I'll almost literally be able to see an entire scene unfold in the building. And it is beautiful. And then I go and write it down.

Sometimes, I'll be anywhere, and strike up a conversation with an interesting stranger, and add them in quietly in the background of my story.

Life inspires. I collect stories, and then the stories come out on paper. This person here, this setting here, this political school of thought there. So yes, life inspires.

Everything inspires.