Art as Inspiration for Fictional Worlds

    A hobby of mine is making dreamscapes on photoshop. Surreal environments that are interesting and unique. Many of these end up in my writing. I want my story to be consistently creative and witty right down to the setting. Of course this can be a difficult thing to accomplish with the written word. It's much easier to describe a setting that already exists, a beach etc, than to create fictional alien worlds. As such I try to used examples people can relate to. 

    Here's one such example that will appear in my second book: the Consumed Etropolis. A silicon city consumed by electric plants. When writing about it I'll relate it to real world things like a city, flowers and a jungle but then expand into floating building and lightning coursing through plants. Expect many such settings in my books.