Goodreads asked T.W. Iain:

How do you get inspired to write?

T.W. Iain I think writing, for me, started off as an escape from things in my life that I had little control over, but I've kept at it, and now it's what gets me out of bed in the mornings. How do I get inspired? By turning on my laptop, seeing where I'd got up to in my current project, and starting to type.

To be honest, routine has a lot to do with it. I've carved out a nice chunk of time before the day job, and now I'm standing at my desk, coffee steaming, typing away before I've had time to think about how stupidly early it is.

I suppose there are other things that inspire me. Getting the first cover through for the first Dominions book helped show me that all these words were a book. Getting to the end of a draft inspires me to carry on with the next one. Looking at my annotated PDF of edits and realising that all those red marks I've made will help improve the story, and that the more edits there are, the more it will improve, inspires me to keep on going.

And, of course, if I didn't write, I'd have to find something else to do.

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