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Goodreads asked Ryan Smithson:

How do you get inspired to write?

Ryan Smithson I wrote "Ghosts of War" because it helped to process trauma. It was therapy. Then it actually got published. Go figure.

Most of the other stuff I've published comes from various ideas I jot down in a journal (most of them stay there). Once in a while an idea hits, develops, lands on its feet, and then someone actually thinks people will want to read it, so they publish it. I wish I knew how it worked, because I'd bottle the formula and sell it on the black market.

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