Goodreads asked Jen Swann Downey:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jen Swann Downey Only a minority of my writing sessions with gen-u-wine 100% Italian leather front-and-center inspiration. Most begin when the clock tells me its my husband's turn to take the kids. It's not that inspiration doesn't ever take me down with a flying tackle. It most certainly does! It's just that inspiration doesn't feel the slightest need to align its thrilling visitations with my planned writing sessions. When it pins me down to enthusiastically lick my face, I'm usually deciding which package of hamburger I should buy (Hm... 1.2 or 1.5 lb --- aaaauuuugggghhhh!) or enjoying a 2am stagger to the bathroom. In terms of deep-bone long-haul inspiration? As in, what makes me ever and ultimately pick up a pen? Two things. Delight and Injustice.

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