A Goodreads user asked Loretta Livingstone:

How do you get your inspiration?

Loretta Livingstone Hi Julia,
I actually worry a lot about inspiration. As I near the end of one book, I start to fret anout whether I'll ever have a good idea for the next one. I usually fret about it, then pray about it, and suddenly, often while I am still editing the current book, I find the story for the next one has started to weave itself into my brain.
Once I get an idea for a story, I still tend not to know where I'm going. I stew on it, and often come up with one or two scenes which would be good, and from there, it just seems to pull itself together.
I don't actually have a great imagination. When I was a child, we had to write a daily diary entry at school. My mum was always stunned at what my younger sister said the family had been up to - Mum never knew we went to so many circuses and zoos, lol. I just wrote things like, "I got up. I had my breakfast. I went to school." Bearing that in mind, and bearing in mind that I do pray quite a bit about what I write, maybe I get a little help from my Friend. :)

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