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Goodreads asked Lisa Graham:

How do you get inspired to write?

Lisa Graham Inspiration is everywhere, I don’t have trouble finding it, the challenge is selecting from among it! Places I visit, fascinating objects, snippets of conversation or themes I see in culture around me, they can all play a role. I take a lot of photos to capture anything that inspires me and jog my memory in the future, and I keep notebooks handy at home and on holiday for idle moments. Holidays are a great time to plot a new book. Something about being away from day to day commitments and somewhere new seems to free the imagination. Writing and publishing a novel is a long process, though, so I find I need to live with a theme or an idea for a while before I begin to write. I need to be sure I like a subject enough to spend a year or two thinking, writing and re-writing about it, and some ideas, whilst lovely, don’t necessarily run as deep as others.

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