What inspires you to write?

For me it tends to be Fantasy-Medieval but I have done a few contemporary and also historical short novella, usually writing with a friend 'Flare'.
WIth the historicals, we usually go completely to town readling up on the time period (ie pre-Revolutionary France, or Ancient Greece) to try and get all the historical details and any RL persona absolutely correct. That is actually quite encouraging to my artistic Muse, in a way.