Goodreads asked Virgil Allen Moore:

How do you get inspired to write?

Virgil Allen Moore I was reading the first book of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead Until Dark. I had gotten to the last section of the book. Until then, the book had been about vampires only. At that point, there was a major reveal that introduced fantasy elements into the story. That pissed me off. And I was very vocal about it at work. I went on for hours about how I felt the novel lied to me as a vampire story. I kept soapboxing that I could write a better vampire novel. And I did it so much that one day someone said, "Then why don't you just write it."
So I did and I spent the next three months writing my very first novella. It was 37k and it had more than half of the book filled with typos. I cut my teeth on that book. I don't regret it, but I do regret showing it to others. In the end, it shows how far I've come as a writer. So for the sake of transparency, I'm kind of glad it's out there.

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