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Goodreads asked C.A. Larmer:

How do you get inspired to write?

C.A. Larmer Ideas flow to me regularly (I have a dozen 'new novels' in the pipeline at any one time), but for daily inspiration to actually sit down and start tapping, I look no further than the letters I receive from fans (eager for a new book), the bank account (eager for more funds), and the deadlines I set myself.

Being a longterm freelance journalist, I know how to self-motivate and work to deadline, so always give myself a time frame to aim towards, and hope to God I get there!

I find if you don't set a deadline, if you simply sit around waiting for the great creative thunderbolt, you'll get nowhere very fast. I sit down, I open the file and I start tapping. Before I know it, the story is writing itself.

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