Goodreads asked M.H. Sullivan:

How do you get inspired to write?

M.H. Sullivan My "day job" these past 20 or 30 years has been technical writing and it's been the best "training" I could've had. It forced me to focus on writing in a way that creative writing doesn't -- the nitty-gritty noun-adjective-verb explaining of sometimes complicated things. So, when I sit down to write creatively -- a novel, memoir, short story, poetry -- I get to focus on plot, characters, dialog, and the way words sound and make me feel. It's like being given a gift.

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