Goodreads asked Keith Jacobsen:

How do you get inspired to write?

Keith Jacobsen Wouldn't call it inspiration - ideas float around and they may or may not crystallise in a pattern which I want to commit to writing. Even then only some of these patterns ever make it to final form. Where do the ideas come from? Unresolved issues in my own past in some cases, family 'mysteries' which were never explained, so in fiction I can put that right by explaining them, not directly - that would be deadly to the reader - but by extrapolating them into situations where they are highlighted and intensified.

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