Sometimes it's the littlest things that inspire the imagination. I've had many ideas spring from a song, even a few from pictures I see online. The music always amuses me. I can hear a song and it inspire a scene or event in a story, or it can give me a character. One of my stories was inspired by two different things. The first was looking at a little winter village and wondering what it would be like living in such a quaint town. Then I heard the Willie Nelson song Baby, It's Cold Outside. And of course I imagined a couple being snowed in in my little village. So that was the aim I had when I started writing Harmony's story.
I've had pictures online inspire character traits, though usually just in small ways. I found one picture, though, that inspired the whole story. When you see a picture of a sweet little girl standing among nasty werewolves and a psychotic vampire, and she is not afraid of them. Come on, there has to be a good story there. And I refuse to keep it in the picture. I started writing about the twisted vampire and his beasts and their sweet little girl. :)  Having some fun with them, though I'm sure the story will be short.
on another note, I'm working on the next teen story, actually putting it on the screen. It's a struggle to start. I know the bones of what is going on, but to flesh it out. Spencer is patient with me, knowing we both need to go carefully into his first few days of his summer. The first few days are so important, they have to happen right, for both of us.