Goodreads asked Richard Crofton:

How do you get inspired to write?

Richard Crofton Getting in the mood to write takes a little bit of discipline. I try to write for at least an hour each night, whether I want to or not. But I feel that what gets me motivated is by reading other books, usually in the same genre, but also from talking with other local authors, or those in the social media groups I joined. It's a shared empathy to hear of their own struggles, and how they relate to my own, but it's also a pleasure when a fellow author has a success, even a minor victory. I am happy for them when this happens, but it also recharges my own batteries because it reminds me: "Hey, this IS possible!" It's one thing when a new book by Stephen King or Dean Koontz comes out on the shelf. But there's something more uplifting and inspiring when it's a local person you know.

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