Goodreads asked Julie Bestry:

How do you get inspired to write?

Julie Bestry The biggest inspiration for me is when someone has a organizational or productivity problem that needs to be solved. When someone complains about a challenge, my instinct is to figure out what areas of my expertise can be used to help them. But I take that inspiration further when I ask myself how I can make a metaphor (often one from pop culture) to make sense of that problem. It doesn't mean I will use it in the writing, but if I imagine how this generic problem might be faced by a pop culture icon (maybe someone in a Shonda Rhimes show) and how my little solution might propel the plot in the direction I hope it will go, I'm inspired to be more creative in expressing the solution.

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