Goodreads asked Gloria Zachgo:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Gloria Zachgo Wow, that’s an interesting question. There are always a lot of interesting little mysteries in everyday life. I usually use my curiosity about others to write a story.
Shortly after I was married, my husband and I moved into an old, two-story house that had been converted into apartments. There were many times when we would come home after dark and see lights on in the basement of the house. There were no apartments in the basement, and as far as we knew no one who lived in the apartments had any reason to go to the basement.
Now to the mystery writing plot…
The house was old. There had been a fire before it was remodeled into apartments. Someone had perished in the fire. Were we sharing the house with a spirit who didn’t like the dark? Had a homeless person crawled through a basement window seeking shelter? Or had an escaped convict found a safe place to hide?
The true answer was probably something simple and ordinary, but for someone who likes to write fiction, that little mystery could easily stoke a writer’s imagination for the plot of a book.

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