Goodreads asked Diane Stephenson:

How do you get inspired to write?

Diane Stephenson This is an interesting question. Except for a small children's book written as a project in an art course I took and a few poems as a teenager, I had never been inspired to write. That is, until a 3-year-old girl moved in across the hall with her mom. I used to spend a lot of time with Jessica, and as she got a little older she would "write" her own stories. She would dictate to me and tell me when to change colors. I would watch Sesame Street and other TV programs with her, and I suppose I assimilated a bit of a child's mindset. I eventually wrote a couple of children's books and had them printed at a local printing company, but never had them professionally published.

Then I challenged myself to write a novel. I wrote and rewrote, but in the end I only had a novella, if it was even long enough to call it that. In the years since, I have worked on that book and I published it in November 2018. Look for the Rainbows: A Journey of Spirit & Heart is now available on Amazon.

In the intervening years I have also written a number of other books, one of which is also now published--Shadows in my Valley. Others will be published as I finish them. So you see how a rather inauspicious beginning has turned into something much bigger that I would ever have thought.

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