Goodreads asked Laura Susan Johnson:

How do you get inspired to write?

Laura Susan Johnson I am currently writing and planning a series that begins with my first novel Crush. Crush was inspired by the gay couples I took care of when I was a hospice case manager in Idaho. I had recently had to give up nursing because of illness and several spinal injuries I suffered from a bad fall in 2009. I had been very depressed, feeling worthless, and no longer financially independent, so in August 2010, I began randomly scribbling a story in a notebook. Later I incorporated lots of elements from a novel that I'd lost when my old Apple computer crashed in 2003. I had no plans to publish this story. It was simply therapy. But as the story grew and the characters became more and more alive, I said to myself, "This needs to be published." So many things can inspire me to write: severe weather, terrible headlines about crimes against children and women, animal cruelty, and so much more.

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