But here are some common methods: 1. Observe the people and things around you. Observation allowed them to understand the world around them more deeply and discover the beauty and interest in life. These inspirations could provide plots and characters for novels. Reading: Reading is an important way to get inspiration. Learn about their lives, experiences, and emotions and get inspiration from them. Reading also allowed them to broaden their horizons and understand different cultures and historical backgrounds, providing a broader vision and depth for the novel. 3. Travel and adventure: Traveling allowed them to experience different cultures, customs, and ways of life and discover new story clues and characters. Adventure could also inspire them. 4. Thinking and Reflection: Thinking allowed them to think deeply about their own actions, emotions, and values to discover deeper story clues and topics. Reflection allowed them to review their own experiences and works, discover problems and shortcomings, and learn from them. 5. Diverse sources of inspiration: Inspiration could be the details of life, experiences and emotions, or other things, historical events and cultural phenomena, or even imagination and fantasy. To find the most suitable source of inspiration for himself.