Goodreads asked Elspeth Rae:

How do you get inspired to write?

Elspeth Rae We decide which letter-sound combination to focus on for a story, look at all the words with that combo, and choose a few good nouns. Then we start brainstorming a story together. Once we have a story outline, one of us takes the lead to write it, and then we work together on the phone and with real-time file-sharing to revise the story. It sometimes takes us weeks or even months to write one 1500-word story!

Often the stories are based on our own experiences. A roommate of Rowena’s really did lose a fish down a drain once (but she got it back), and Elspeth really did visit a ranch that had been evacuated only days before due to a wildfire.

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