Goodreads asked Linda Cockburn:

How do you get inspired to write?

Linda Cockburn Writing taught me how to lucid dream. I didn't realise what I was doing was a thing. I was working full-time, 7 days a week running an heirloom seed growing business and writing had to take a back seat. But it didn't want to. Eat My Shadow wanted to be written and it was insistent. I remember telling my partner if I didn't write it I would go mad. Then I'd turn out the light, be in that in-between sleep and awake place and the characters would start talking. I'd hear/see passages of up to 500 words. Then I'd force myself to wake completely, snap on the light and write it down, often in reverse. I'd do this off and on all night, often my writing was barely legible, especially when I didn't bother to turn on the light. And yes, my partner and I sleep in separate rooms - and love it!

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