Goodreads asked Jeff Dawson:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jeff Dawson By staring for hours and hours at my laptop screen, going off to have a cup of tea (Earl Grey brewed 3mins minimum, splash of milk), a quick noodle on the guitar, or doing some exercise. I was a very keen runner till I did my knee in. Running was always good thinking time. Hopefully it will be again. A very learned fellow once told me that you can't write a book until you have the book inside you. Someone else, an esteemed writer, said something about an author being pregnant with an idea -- all these terrible female analogies drawn by male authors! So anyway, whatever it takes to get yourself mentally pregnant.

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