Goodreads asked Rodney Ross:

How do you get inspired to write?

Rodney Ross My best ideas, whether its fragments of dialogue, vivid description or an entire scene, come in the twilight gap between closing my eyes and cascading into sleep. I often wake myself to write key words down (and, in the morning light, I often find that I can't decipher my sideways scrawls). ALWAYS keep paper and pen handy, although some of my finest stuff was scribbled onto the back of an ATM receipt or a paper bag.

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