Goodreads asked Shelby Wratchford:

How do you get inspired to write?

Shelby Wratchford It's one of those things that I can't point to anything specific, and it's different for every writer and creative. Sometimes it's a historical event, an artwork, the weather, something someone does or says. It can be a big, momentous thing, or it can be something as small as the way it feels to sit on the grass. It has to be natural. One day, you might be driving past an abandoned house you see all the time and suddenly, it's gone. Demolished and made way for something else like it was never there. And you'll think about the fragility of things, and then maybe you'll write a poem, and that poem could turn into a sentence and eventually, into a novel. You never know where you'll get your inspiration from. Just live! Inspiration is all around us, just waiting.

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