Goodreads asked Jon Reisfeld:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jon Reisfeld If your question is, "Where do you get your ideas from?" Then, inspiration applies, and it comes from living. Example: my first novel, The Reform Artists, which is a legal-suspense / spy thriller about a man wrongly accused of domestic violence in the run up to his divorce, is about the highly destructive nature of high-conflict divorce tactics and the courts' inability to deal with them in a responsible, constitutional way. Guess where I got the idea for that story? :) Yep, more than a decade ago, I was "that guy" metaphorically speaking. The character and the events are not me and not real. They are fiction. But the opportunity to allow people to experience that particular injustice vicariously, but deeply and intimately, in a way that might cause them to feel, as well as understand the injustice is one of the great transformational powers of writing ... and a great responsibility for authors. (By the way, you can download a free sample of the first 50 pages of that book by going here: http://jonreisfeld.com/List TRA Sample Incentive
Now, if your question actually was "What does it take to inspire you to 'get off your ass and write? My answer would be quite different. As a young man, I operated solely on inspiration, and I wrote in infrequent fits and spurts of creativity. That's no way to approach the task of writing. You write because nothing good can happen to you, as a writer, unless and until you do, and the more you write, the sooner you can get where you're going. The other motivation -- far more powerful than inspiration -- is that the clock is constantly ticking ... and you can never get those missed seconds back!

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