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Goodreads asked Patrick O'Sullivan:

How do you get inspired to write?

Patrick O'Sullivan This may sound backwards, but I don't need to get inspired to write, so long as I wrote something the previous day.

Taking a day off is deadly, though, so I try to just keep at it, like a seven-day a week job.

It's an entirely unromantic attitude, but I have readers that are waiting for the next story, and I don't want them to think I'm a slacker, or that I take them for granted.

So I just keep at it, like a workman, no inspiration required.

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