Goodreads asked Danielle Forrest:

How do you get inspired to write?

Danielle Forrest That's not really the challenge for me. My bigger challenge is keeping myself to only a couple projects at a time. I usually have about 50 books in various stages, but for the last few years, I've restricted myself to writing one book and editing one book at a time, that way I can actually get things done.

That being said, I do have trouble with keeping a habit of working on my writing. I've had a lot of stress in the past few years, a lot of stuff going on including 2 bouts of unemployment, a stressful job, and 2 family members dying. It has really thrown me for a loop but I am working at creating a ritual around writing career tasks, specifically, I do something writing related after eating.

Each time after I sit down to eat at home, I sit down to write, edit, or work on something else related to my writing career. So far, it has energized me to continue as I start working while fully fueled. It also gives me a trigger independent of time since in the past I had trouble with constantly shifting schedules that made setting timed reminders impossible.

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