Goodreads asked Mark Edward Langley:

How do you get inspired to write?

Mark Edward Langley Actually, I scan news papers and online news sites for stories that intrigue me, print them out, and file them away in a file cabinet drawer under Story Ideas. Usually, the title comes to me first; then I begin to build a story around it. I will go through the file folder and pick out stories that may fit the synopsis I am thinking about, and begin creating new characters with back stories that will inhabit the new novel.

My third novel, When Silence Screams, comprises three different stories that may or may not be connected, but the reader will enjoy weaving through the novel forming their own ideas. I always plot out my stories, so I do know where I'm going ... I just have to craft a story that finds a way to get there.

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