Goodreads asked Joanne Leedom-Ackerman:

How do you get inspired to write?

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman When possible, I spend the first hour or even two each day quietly thinking, listening to thoughts larger than mine, sometimes reading. In earlier days, that might be called invoking the muses. When I’m in the middle of a novel, I often have finished the work the day before on a kind of precipice so that I have to plunge in either to find out what happens next or execute what happens next. Sometimes I review what I’ve written earlier, and the momentum of that process takes me forward. The ground zero inspiration comes from writing. Writers write. That is how they live and breathe so each day find the time to get words and ideas moving, and these will create momentum.

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