The biggest influence in my writing goes back to college when I was in training to be a minister and I was exposed to different charactors and teaching of the Bible. That training laid the fondation for my stories and the other influences were writers such as Francis Schaffer, CS Lewis and Thomas Aquanis their philopsophies helped me to develop charactors and cultures and the reasons that they developed the way they had. Another influence is my work and I know that legally we cannot base our stories off of real people but I have worked with all kinds of people from the affluent to inner cit more...