Goodreads asked Deborah Goodrich Royce:

How do you get inspired to write?

Deborah Goodrich Royce I am very Pavlovian—I respond to the cues around me and have an almost automatic trigger that clicks into gear. I live in Connecticut on a river and, when I write, I sit at a big round table in a room that looks west at the water. Something about sitting down in my chair just puts me in the head space of writing, because that is what I do when I sit there.
Also—partly kidding, but not really—I have a doggie companion who sits with me—my oldest dog, Paige. She LOVES to write and plants herself next to me while I do it. My other dog, Georgina, is not as committed and she wanders around and distracts me. I love them both, but Paige's serenity helps to kickstart my own focus.

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