Goodreads asked Gideon Burrows:

How do you get inspired to write?

Gideon Burrows A good idea can come from anywhere, or it can creep up on you over a long time. I spent two years on my bike writing Men Can Do It before I put a word down on paper. I felt so strongly about the issue, I was giving interviews on Women's Hour in my head. I HAD to write it, there was no choice.

More often, it's a little inkling of an idea - something someone says, or a little experience. I'll mull it over, let it fester and then test it out with a couple of thousand words or so.

My brain tumour book Living Low Grade came about that way. I didn't mean to write it, it just grew out of thoughts and musings I was having and which I'd heard from other brain tumour patients, and suddenly there it was.

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