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Goodreads asked Maia Chance:

How do you get inspired to write?

Maia Chance Reading other people's books inspires me. If I go through doldrums during which I only watch television or movies for a week or so, my writing suffers. And for me, imaginative work is mash-up work, so I usually get new ideas through unexpected combinations of other things. In fact, you can use this for a creative exercise: take two utterly unrelated ideas or things and force them into combination. Sometimes the result is like Frankenstein's Monster, but other times the result is special and surprising.

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