Goodreads asked Dan Walsh:

How do you get inspired to write?

Dan Walsh If you mean where do I get the inspiration for my book ideas, that would be a hard one to answer. I've written 20 novels and the way these stories have come to me has rarely followed a definable pattern. Usually something sets the spark, and then an idea grows over several days. Sometimes a week or more. I write everything down as it comes. It reaches a certain point where I "see it." Then I can usually keep developing it into a full story with a beginning, middle and end.

Sometimes I'll get 3 or 4 of these in a single month. Other times, it might be months in between with nothing (usually in those months, I'm neck deep writing a book). So far, I haven't come close to running out of story ideas. I have way more than I have time to write.

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