Goodreads asked Philip Whiteland:

How do you get inspired to write?

Philip Whiteland I think inspiration gave up on me years ago and went off to bother someone else. I do, sometimes, have a germ of an idea (perhaps just one line or the basis for a joke that amuses me) and that usually keeps going around in my head until I can get it down on paper. It doesn't always automatically become a useful article. I've had many false starts with an idea that I like, simply because I haven't quite got the right context in which to present it.

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