Goodreads asked Tamara Shoemaker:

How do you get inspired to write?

Tamara Shoemaker I have to laugh at the idea of "inspiration" to write. Do I think that authors are inspired to write a story? Yes, often. Do I think that every story out there was inspired? Not by a long shot. The main thing I've learned over time is that if I wait for the inspiration, the book will never get written. Writing is sitting down, every day, slogging through the thousand words or the two thousand words or whatever your goal is for the day, and getting your ideas onto paper. From there, the story grows. Someone (I don't know who) said, "You can't edit a blank page." So true.

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