How do you come up with ideas for stories?

[Vicki M. Taylor]

For me, when I was actively writing, the characters revealed themselves to me and told me their stories.
I also had 2 books published from dreams. I woke the next morning and wrote and wrote every detail of my dream. These pages became my synopsis. From there, the characters took over and the book wrote itself. This happened twice. The second book one first place in a writing contest. I don’t write anymore, not since a huge server backup disaster lost all of my writing. It was like a dark curtain shut out that side of me and the characters don’t talk to me anymore.
I did continue blog writing for a few years, but I finally “officially” retired from writing and am concentrating on marketing my backlist.
I had considered writing a memoir, but even that doesn’t make me eager to write.
I think concentrating on marketing is best for me.