Goodreads asked Alex Silver:

How do you get inspired to write?

Alex Silver All sorts of things inspire me to write. The world around me, I grew up on a family farm after my mom remarried, but before that we moved around a good amount and I've moved a bit myself since growing up so getting to see different places and all the little quirks of those places inspires me to write. And as an dual citizen coming from two previous generations that moved across national borders and having done the same with my family, I get to see things from a different perspective sometimes.

My education also inspires some of what I write. The history of public health fascinated me and influenced some of the history in the SPIREverse for instance.

But really even the mundane can make an idea pop into my head. When I was a kid my family used to joke that I was probably writing about them, because I was constantly coming up with stories or they would say or do something and I would reach for my notebook.

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