Goodreads asked Todd Crawshaw:

How do you get inspired to write?

Todd Crawshaw Ideas for a novel come to me from time to time. Only a few germinate until I can’t resist the desire and need to develop the story, to explore this imaginary world, and to fulfill this mysterious vision that has inspired me. I consider writing fiction to be a visual art. To quote John Gardner: “The organized and intelligent fictional dream that will eventually fill the reader’s mind begins as a largely mysterious dream in the writer’s mind.” Likewise, Charles Dickens said: “An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”

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