Emily asked Kasie West:

Hi, I am a huge fan and love all your books, the first book I read was "By Your Side". I was wondering how you get inspiration and what do you do when you get writer's block? I start writing books but never finish them😂. Also if you could write a book with any author who would it be? Thank you for all your amazing work.

Kasie West Thank you! I'm so happy to hear you enjoy my books. Inspiration comes to me in so many different ways. Whether it's a place I visit or a story I hear or a movie I watch, I get the spark of an idea and then sit with it and let my brain dream up a story for it. When I get writer's block sometimes I need to step away from my computer and stop putting so much pressure on myself, sometimes I need to go back in the story and work the plot from a different angle, sometimes I need to skip the part I'm stuck on to a part of the story where I know what happens and then come back to the part I'm stuck on later. All the time I have to tell myself that it's okay to write badly and I'll go back and fix it later. If I could write a book with another author?? Hmm, I don't know. I'm kind of a 'work alone' type. It's hard for me to write with someone else because I don't outline and I need to be able to write my first draft knowing that nobody else is reading it. It helps me write more freely. But there are so so many authors I admire and love their work, so it might be fun to be in an anthology or collaboration with some of my favs. :)

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