Goodreads asked Jane Retzig:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jane Retzig All kinds of ways - something I see, a fragment of news, music on the radio (the book I'm writing at the moment was inspired by hearing Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' on the radio at Christmas) - something someone says - or some personal experience, memory or issue that I want to 'process'. I don't normally have an idea of where the story is going when I start. I just sit down and write, and at some point it takes on a life of it's own.

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