What inspired john marsden to write tomorrow when the war began?

Answer 1

John Marsden describes his approach to writing:

'Writing is not a job or activity, nor do I sit at a desk waiting for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some time, I am in an alternative world which I enter through daydreaming or imagination. This world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that their much different to eachother.

'However, I write about these alternative worlds because it helps to preserve them. I'm their historian, their geographer, their sociologist, their storyteller. I write them into being. I have to say I don't care whether this is a good thing to do or not; this is just the way I am and the way I live my life.'

So you see, he wasn't inspired by anything in particular as such, but rather had this world all along and finally decided to put it in writing.