Goodreads asked Richard I. Levine:

How do you get inspired to write?

Richard I. Levine When I wrote my first novel, Eye of The Redeemer, in 2011, It was because I had become bored with television. At the time I found sitting in front of the television to be a mind-numbing waste of time. I picked up a few novels (I like historical fiction) which stimulated the imagination, but wanted to use my imagination to create my own adventures. That's not to say there aren't great story tellers out there, I simply decided one night that I would begin writing as an outlet for myself. Once started, I couldn't stop. Each night I returned to the sentence, the paragraph, or the page I penned the night before and continue where I left off. If I was in the zone I pounded the keyboard for hours. If nothing was there, I didn't force it and stepped away. After several months I realized I had a decent WIP and continued it until completion. I liked my protagonist so much that he became my inspiration to continue his journey in the three novels that followed.

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