Goodreads asked Andrew Timothy Post:

How do you get inspired to write?

Andrew Timothy Post They say truth is stranger than fiction. I don't usually write historical fiction, but sci-fi...yet I usually look to history for inspiration. I read books about historical figures and wars and global conflicts and trade routes and whatnot, and I get inspired like you wouldn't believe. The pages of history are filled with larger-than-life characters, exciting times, bountiful riches, and situations that can't be made up, too unreal to be believed. Everything you need to tell a great story is right there in the narrative nonfiction on the bookstore shelf.

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