Goodreads asked Clark Hays:

How do you get inspired to write?

Clark Hays I think the real question for any serious writer (and by “serious,” I mean someone who takes the creative impulse seriously; it has nothing to do with credentials or commercial success) is how do you deal with the demands of life that keep you from writing all the time. I’m inspired to write when I first wake up and until the minute I go to sleep, but all the great ideas rattling around and desperately searching for my notebook are in constant battle with a thousand other competing claims on my time: work (which, luckily, also entails writing, just not creatively), a house in dire need of cleaning, basic personal hygiene, hunger, NetFlix (seriously, Jessica Jones, stop being so good) and a jealous, needy Kindle with about a hundred samples begging me to turn them into purchases. Inspiration is never a problem for me, just lack of time.

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