Goodreads asked J.R. Young:

How do you get inspired to write?

J.R. Young If a scene, scenario, story idea, phrase, philosophical mental mumbo-jumbo, enters my mind AND resonates in my chest, I know there's something there. For me, an idea, especially a story, has to resonate with the heart because if a story has no heart then it is no story at all. Soulless stories may make a lot of money (Fifty Shades of Grey), but they are the "empty calories" of the storytelling world.

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