Goodreads asked Michael Pugh:

How do you get inspired to write?

Michael Pugh I have a sort of pressure cooker in my mind that forces me to write or to work on the prepration for writing. If I don't write, the pressure builds and I fall victim to a sort of all-consuming disgust that I'm not doing what I'm meant to be doing, and by that point it's a case of write, or the wheels come off. I suppose it's a sort of drive to do something worthwhile except that it manifests itself in me like a big shark following a rowboat across a sea of mental illness.It gets better when I write though, so I write.

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