Lots of things influence me. Music is a big part but then I also get inspired by whatever I'm reading currently and the things I watch. I just recently fell in love with the show Falling Skies but duh....I'm a huge science fiction mark, so of course I did. Anyway, science fiction and horror based stuff usually get the gears turning upstairs and that can be totally spotted in my SattyNova rps. As for my other characters. Joe Tuesday and Arville LaDonis. Well, you can tell those are a bit harder for me to write as seeing as they don't have much up in the form of rps. Really, I think it's the character coupled with what you're reading/watching/listening to that's the biggest factor. If you can't get your mind into the state of putting something out as the character, if you can't find comfort in envisioning that character's mind frame and reactions, then it's a hopeless cause no matter what you use as your normal idea infuser. Maybe not totally hopeless, hopeless is a bit of a drastic word, but it's definitely going to be a lot more difficult.