Goodreads asked Derek Davis:

How do you get inspired to write?

Derek Davis I don't think inspiration had much to do with it. I wrote Robert Benchley-like bits as a teen just for the hell of it, worked on the campus paper at UPenn, dropped in an out of making mostly minimal money at feature writing, then captivated completely by "Gravity's Rainbow" and spent way too many years trying to write my version of it (ha!). Since then, realized I'll never make money at anything, it's not in my nature, so just plug along with false starts and a few completions of work that I enjoy doing, even when it drives me batty.

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