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Goodreads asked Jessica Shortall:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jessica Shortall I am an avid reader and consumer of news, history, and popular culture. My brain is always fizzing, trying to make connections between the things I've read over the years. Usually one of those connections - say, between something I experienced while serving in the Peace Corps and a way I'm trying to verbalize current political events - will spark, and I'll feel compelled to sit down and write.

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