Goodreads asked Dennis Meredith:

How do you get inspired to write?

Dennis Meredith My plot ideas usually pop into my head as a single question that keeps nagging me until I write a novel to answer it. For example, The Cerulean’s Secret began as the question “What if there was a blue cat?” And my first novel, The Rainbow Virus, began as a question “What if there was a virus that turned people all different colors?” I understand such a single-sentence inspirational idea is not unusual. For example, the story I’ve read about the origin of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings was that Tolkien was grading English papers one day, and a single sentence popped into his head. “In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.” And the rest is literary history!

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