Goodreads asked S.R. Wilsher:

How do you get inspired to write?

S.R. Wilsher It can be a scene/moment from real life or drama, a song lyric or some other writing. It will prompt an idea and I then see what story can be spun out of it. I think of it like a puzzle that I have to make sense of. Writing is a great way of developing some of those random thoughts and writing them down seems the ordered thing to do.
Also, if I read something I feel is poorly written then it encourages me to write. If I read a great book, then it encourages me to edit!
The reason I started writing was only ever to see a printed version of my book being read somewhere. It would be the final piece of solving the puzzle that writing is to me. I keep going because then I haven’t failed.

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