Goodreads asked Michael Don Anderson:

How do you get inspired to write?

Michael Don Anderson I'm afraid my brain is so full of ideas it's more about choosing which ideas to focus on. Everything and anything triggers a character moment and that leads to an entire novel. I find people to be very interesting, each of us unique and worthy of entire novels. Maybe it's a dialogue heard on the bus or at the airport. Maybe an interaction between a mother and her children in the supermarket. Or something in the news. But always about people. I always start with a vignette of some character feeling or doing something like a movie clip in my brain and my subconscious runs off with it from there. Some longer motivation is fleshed out by bringing interesting characters and my own personal experiences into an evolving story.

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