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Goodreads asked Matthew Gavin Frank:

How do you get inspired to write?

Matthew Gavin Frank Sometimes, when I’m struggling to write, I’ll turn to my Audubon bird books for inspiration. I love the bird descriptions. Reading through them almost always helps me to dislodge something. Today, it was the rare Eastern bronze-naped pigeon, member of a protected species, sporting a “golden hindcollar, amethyst nape, and dusky breast.” Yep. That’ll carry me through this paragraph.

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