Goodreads asked Raymond Henri:

How do you get inspired to write?

Raymond Henri Engaging life around me. That's important, so I'm going to write it again, in case you're too lazy or thoughtless to re-read it. Engaging life around me. I get inspired from so many random and unexpected moments, I can't keep track of them. Even playing video games. My mind hits a tangent, and voom! It's off to the races.

The trick is capitalizing on the inspiration and making it work for my current project. It's a little trickier to let it go if it doesn't fit. Some brilliant ideas get jotted down on a list in a journal I highly doubt I'll be able to find years from now when I'm scrabbling for something to work on.

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