Goodreads asked Michael Augustyn:

How do you get inspired to write?

Michael Augustyn As far back as high school I had the urge. I was lucky to have good composition teachers. I was encouraged when I got an A-plus on a theme on The Old Man And The Sea from a professor who said that in two decades he only gave two such marks. The entire theme was five paragraphs. Then I saw things and people that hadn't been written about and was moved to try to write about them. It took a lot of hours to find my writer's "voice." I was rejected by a top-notch agent after he praised my first few chapters--very highly, too--so I self-published... and an agent "found" me. My Dracula historical novel is now published in the US, UK, China, Italy, Poland, and Vietnam.
May I add...? My personal belief is that we don't control results, all we can do is make the effort. If you're moved to write, do it in a way that's comfortable for you. Oh, and someone said you can get more inspiration out of half an hour of silence than a half dozen hours of straining. I like that, proved true for me many times.

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