I think I just loved reading books so much that I started to wonder if I would also like writing them. I decided to give it a try. I found out I like writing books more than I liked teaching. Stories about families, about real people, or at least people that felt real to me reading about them. I loved books by Beverly Cleary, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Eleanor Estes, Arthur Ransome.
Ideas are everywhere.
I watch and listen to everything going on around me. Sometimes ideas come from my own experience, sometimes from other peoples experiences. Usually I ll start writing about one little thing from real life, and when I m lucky a story begins to grow. To find out how Kathy Stinson books got started, click on their titles. That s a hard question to answer.