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Goodreads asked Elin Barnes:

How do you get inspired to write?

Elin Barnes I think once you start you can't stop. In fact, when I don't write, I miss it.

However, you can't force new ideas. I normally see something or experience something that triggers a scene and then I build on that. Then I mature it before I start the actual writing. I don't plot, but I have to have the main idea of the book before I go for it. At least, that has been true with the first two books and the one I'm about to start.

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