Earthlight
I adore weird facts, and I suspect this will be the first of many.
There is a small crater named Peary that lies directly on the north pole of the moon. It's named (approriately enough) after Robert Peary, the Arctic explorer who first reached earth's north pole.
The sun never gets far above the moon's horizon, so the bottom of the crater is in perpetual darkness. However, it might get some illumination from the blue earthlight when our planet is above the horizon, and reflects the light of the sun into it via the mirror of the Earth's surface. So, the only light it gets is reflected from us.
Conversely, the wonderfully romantic "mountains of eternal light" rim the Peary crater, and rarely see anything but perpetual sunlight. And it sounds like a great title for a Fantasy story.
But all facts aside, this is the whole point of reading to me. If you don't read, how can you write? The fact above could spawn all sorts of wonderful science fiction ideas, from unusual lifeforms to the only place an alien civilisation might leave a clue to their existence. In fact, and in opposite reflection, there's a wonderful short story by Larry Niven called Inconstant Moon that talks about the reflected light of the sun from the moon's surface, and what happens when the moon suddenly gets very bright one evening.
Inspriation can come from anywhere, but surely you can increase your changes of inspiration by reading a variety of stuff that interests you. And occasionally, challenge yourself to read something odd, unsual or different.
So if you're stuck for inspiration, go and read something odd. It might just give your Brian a kick in the virtual pants.
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