Goodreads asked Curtis Hawk:

How do you get inspired to write?

Curtis Hawk I was at first just writing short stories that involved my children when they were young and then reading it to them at bedtime.
When my grandchildren were being born and growing I wrote about them inserting them into the story. Example one granddaughter liked little bunny rabbits, so she became a little bunny and her daily adventures began. Again Reading to them when they visited grandpa. After having seven grandkids I had a lot of little short stories about them as the characters, My daughters used them having each of their children draw themselves as that character doing what the story described. on the story page. Making it a short story book with illustrations. they then had those pages bound into a cheap little book called Grandpa's Bedtime Stories and presented to me as a Christmas gift.

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