Goodreads asked Rafe Jadison:

How do you get inspired to write?

Rafe Jadison If you read the blog on my webpage, you'll see that an ageless and beautiful muse inspires me to write. She, of course, uses a variety of things to inspire me to write. Sometimes, it's a song. On other occasions, it might be an idea that comes when I'm showering in the morning--perhaps it arose in my subconscious overnight. Usually though, I am inspired by situations. When I was in college, and I was seriously writing a lot, I found myself using my writing to better understand an odd situation. I think as a participant in life we are often just left with our reactions to a particular situation. When writing, you have the opportunity to take those situations and look at them from multiple points of view. You are suddenly putting yourself in the situation as all of the characters. It's like a dream where every character is some aspect of you, except as a writer you start to understand why each party did what they did. Also, like many writers, sometimes I play the what if game. It's where you simply wonder, what would happen if this happened? As a writer, you frequently make up stories to find out.

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