Goodreads asked Janis Harper:

How do you get inspired to write?

Janis Harper I open my inner senses wide and listen quietly, attentively. If I'm lucky, something might arrive that wants to be pursued. Something sparks a passion that needs to be expressed. Or I might get obsessed by a particular idea... or an unfinished conversation... Or reading another writer's work will inspire me. Or I engage with another arts modality--dancing, singing, drawing--or I just go for a walk and clear my head. Inspiration is a magical, mysterious thing; it can't be harnessed. But it can be invited.

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