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Goodreads asked Wathanya Souvanna:

How do you get inspired to write?

Wathanya Souvanna I've always loved writing and storytelling (among other things, like reading).

My first story was a badly written YA romance novelette back in high school. It was written in Thai and posted on the popular-with-teens Thai website, Dek-D. It's probably buried under 3 million other stories by now.

I remember writing as a way to cope with my undiagnosed depression+anxiety and stress of high schoolers.

I stopped writing for many years before being inspired by a writer I admire, Franklin Veaux. I knew him from Quora (he's a very active user), and made a lot of self-discovery from his answers.

One of the things that he writes about is, well, writing, and that was arguably one of the main things that inspired me to start seriously writing.

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