Goodreads asked John Russell:

How do you get inspired to write?

John Russell I get inspired to write by the factual realization that if I don't plant my butt in the chair and type, words are not going to get written! Seriously, one of the best things I ever read was an interview that quoted some big name writers, and they all said that if you wait for the muse before you begin to write you'll never produce a word, but that if you show up to do the work every day you'll find the muse starts appearing too. Writing is work--hard work--so we authors have to be willing to do it, to put in the work.

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