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Goodreads asked McKenzie Austin:

How do you get inspired to write?

McKenzie Austin For me, it's less about inspiration and more about necessity. I have a full-time job as a tattoo artist. I'm a wife. I'm a mom. On the rare occasion that I have a spare minute to put words to digital paper, I have to make a decision: Am I going to use this time to write?
This is not to discredit my muse. I can tell when s/he is present, because my words either sound like fluid poetry or like they've been dragged from the bottom of a polluted lake, thrown in a food processor, and spread across moldy bread. Thank the gods for editing, am I right?

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