Goodreads asked Lara Ann Dominick:

How do you get inspired to write?

Lara Ann Dominick I spent years training as an actress, where you are taught that "acting is telling the truth in imaginary circumstances" -Meisner. For me, writing is the same thing. Getting inspired is as simple (not easy, but simple) as imagining a "what if" scenario, then putting myself into the characters' mind to figure out what they would do and say. In that way, all of my characters have a bit of me in them, but only in the way that I imagine what that character would do. I have often called it a day when a character stops acting like themselves in my work, because I'm not able to get into their mind and discern their motives. But it's why I like the "what ifs?" They give me somewhere to start from, and then it's just a matter of making the characters "real".

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