Goodreads asked Janelle Brown:

How do you get inspired to write?

Janelle Brown I wish I could pinpoint exactly where the inspiration for my books comes from, but I can’t. They usually creep in to my mind when I’m not paying attention. I am a voracious reader of news and magazines and books; and I listen to tons of podcasts too. So I’m always absorbing stories and ideas and scenarios that interest me – even though I don’t necessarily write them down – and what seems to happen is that all that stuff I absorb starts to percolate and synthesize and then suddenly one day I’ll be struck by an image or a fragment of an idea. And without quite realizing what has happened, it will begin to grow into a concrete story and the next thing you know I have a book idea.

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