I would have to say that I started seriously writing in the form of poetry when I was still a child. I can't explain exactly what inspired it, except that a poem would appear in my head and I would have to write it down to get it out. It's like when a song gets stuck in your head, but it's a song that was never written, and the only way to release it is to write it down.
Fiction stories are similar, except that what comes into my head with them is ideas rather than fully formed sentences. I'm not sure anything in particular inspires them. Sometimes my thoughts just wander into them.
