Goodreads asked Kristopher Kelly:

How do you get inspired to write?

Kristopher Kelly I am generally not inspired when I sit down to write. But I sit down and put my hands on the keys. Then I try to concentrate and fully describe what I'm seeing in my head until it becomes convincing. If a story is a garden, then I'm the guy who has to plow the rows -- and plow to the end of each one -- and plant enough seeds so the whole thing grows good and lively (and not too weedy) in the reader's mind, with a minimum amount of dead spots. It's rarely, if ever, a fever of brilliant, euphoric inspiration; it's more like Tom Waits says, "You got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow."

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