Goodreads asked Janisse Ray:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Janisse Ray My most recent book is a manual for placekeeping. It's called JOURNEY IN PLACE: A FIELD GUIDE TO BELONGING. The idea came during the pandemic, when all of us were home, when I realized that most people would be helped by knowing how to love and enjoy the place they lived.

Before that, I got the idea for CRAFT & CURRENT: A MANUAL FOR MAGICAL WRITING from teaching hundreds of writers and writing students over the years. I'd been wanting to put together a writing manual for a long time. I love that book. If you're interested in writing, I think you'll get something from it.

I could keep going about how the ideas for my books arrived to me. If you're curious about another, let me know.

Thank you for asking.

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