Goodreads asked Andrew Sweet:

How do you get inspired to write?

Andrew Sweet This is hard. I had writer's block for two days this week, and I spent that time focusing on marketing my book. Then I sat down, and explored the story in my head. For me, writer's block is an indication that the story is heading in a direction it shouldn't. I basically spend the time figuring out what's wrong with it. Sometimes I take the character, and ask, would the character really do xxxx? Often the answer is no, and that's what the problem is.

Other times, the plot is boring me. If it's boring me, then it's probably boring others. Those times I have to re-evaluate the entire book and find the spark. I phrase this as a question to myself: "Okay, so what really happened?" This helps me acknowledge that I got it wrong and investigate it. Sometimes it's easier to do a post-mortem than to create new, especially went the inspiration is low!

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