Motivations for my writing usually come as ideas when I'm trying to sleep. I have so many genre interests to read & write in so it would be impossible to say who or what has truly influenced my writing.  The first chapter of my next book (Serial Stalker) came to me in a dream, I don't usually remember my dreams, or if I do, they're just a jumble of nonsense. I remembered this one and typed a little over a thousand words as soon as I got up. :)  

I've never really had any ambitions in life, my writing began a long time ago (1985 ish) but I've only been self-publishing since March (2017).
I'm just happy to finally have the chance to publish my older works and to add to them, now that I've rediscovered the writer in me.