Goodreads asked Idabel Allen:

How do you get inspired to write?

Idabel Allen I don’t know that I exactly get inspired to write. Writing is what I do and have known that I would do since I wrote my first short stories for class when I was twelve. It’s been my job all the years I raised a family and worked a day job. I have never waited to feel inspired, but have always put myself before my computer on a regular schedule. It is when I am writing that I feel inspired. This is because I am doing what I am meant to do. The more inspired I am in the writing, the better the writing goes. Perhaps the root of this is the books I read as child. If anything inspired me to write, it was the stories of Ray Bradbury and John Steinbeck and later William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote and others.

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