Goodreads asked Dallas Denny:

How do you get inspired to write?

Dallas Denny I wanted to be a writer from an early age. I remember despairing at age seven or eight because I didn't think I would be able to do it. What sort of vocabulary would a person have to have to use words that would make the right-hand column line up so perfectly. It would be more than a decade before I knew there was such a thing as proportional fonts.

The spirit to write is just within me. I get this feeling which I like to think is in my breast. There's no language, just inspiration, and I feel as if I'm about to give birth to something--and generally do. Sometimes it's a song, sometimes a poem, sometimes prose. Once I get started, I just roll along. I stop only when life becomes hectic or there's something complex that requires thought. The problem rolls around in my subconscious for days or weeks or, on occasion, months, and then one day I have the answer and start writing again.

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