Goodreads asked Frances Evelyn:

How do you get inspired to write?

Frances Evelyn Simply put, I get inspired by writing. There'll be some small seed to begin with, but I usually only find out what it's going to grow into by sitting down and writing.
What that seed is varies from book to book. Sometimes it's an idea that I want to explore, as in Bibliomancer, sometimes a character comes first, as in Finding Christine (both works in progress at the time of writing). For me, the first draught is often largely dialogue, and the process of re-writing involves focusing, pruning and filling out the conversations with narrative and with descriptions of people, places and thoughts.

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