Inspiration

If I were to write a novel, I would take inspiration from everything around me and all of the people who have influenced me, just as George Orwell took inspiration from his surroundings. I work at a preschool and everyday I study the impact that the kids have on each other. My book would be primarily a coming of age story about a kid similar to the kids that I work with at the preschool. I watch as they grow up and shed some of their optimism and naive outlook on the world. I would take many of my experiences dealing with them and encouraging them and use those in the book, in addition to using feelings and experiences from my own childhood. The characters would be based on either the kids from the preschool or many of the friends that I had growing up.