Goodreads asked G. Allen Cook:

How do you get inspired to write?

G. Allen Cook Inspiration is an iron ball and shackle on the leg of every writer. I do not rely upon it. I wake early, get the kid ready for school, and then sit in my office chair and take up writing from where I left off the night before. I do not drink coffee--which is a bit odd for a writer--and I've never suffered writer's block. Waiting for inspiration is like waiting for rain--it's never there when you need it, and you never have an umbrella when it comes. Just write. Inspiration comes only after the work begins, and then rarely. I do not trust it.

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