Goodreads asked Ed Marohn:

How do you get inspired to write?

Ed Marohn I let my imagination and my characters lead me when I write fiction such as in my short story "Retirement" published in Hardboiled mystery magazine, which is about an aging mafia hit man struggling with his future while still doing his boss's bidding. The characters actually inspire me to write. They direct my prose.
My non-fiction writing is driven differently obviously, focused on a factual objectives, such as my article "Brainwashing: Man Over Mind" in Army Magazine. In this case I'm inspired to teach or inform based on historical facts of brainwashing POWs in war time.

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