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Holly Ash I have a playlist of emotional heartbreaking type songs that I listen to while I'm writing since writing emotional scenes is always the hardest for me and the music helps to get me in the right headspace.

If that doesn't work I try to take a break from writing and instead emerge myself in others' stories be it book, movies, or TV shows and find inspiration that way.
Holly Ash The idea for Cleansing Rain was pieced together from a few different moments. When I published my first book, Crystal and Flint, a coworker asked me if it about environmental issues since my day job is being an environmental engineer. I told him it wasn't, but the idea to write something with environmental themes stuck with me. Next was reading through an agent's manuscript wish list and seeing someone asking for a story about the events that lead up to a dystopian future. Finally I had a very vivid dream about being kidnapped from work by a man and then meeting up with two other people. This became the opening to Cleansing Rain and where the characters of Ian, Iris, and Blake came from.

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