Goodreads asked Mark Justice:

How do you get inspired to write?

Mark Justice In a very specific sense, writing isn't the first part of the creative process. It's usually third, after letting the imagination invent, which is its own process and takes its own time. Then, there's structure, organization, which allows you to refine and further develop and expand the initial imaginative spark. That's when the idea slowly takes shape and molds itself into a tangible, executable form.
Once that form is established - for me, a detailed outline - that's when I get truly inspired to write, the act of writing.
In terms of a general sense, though, I have a pretty active imagination, and it's always doing something creative in the background, so I just let it run around and throw stuff up at me whenever it feels like it.

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