Goodreads asked Ged Maybury:

How do you get inspired to write?

Ged Maybury Success was always a great motivator. If you're already on top of your game, and the sales are buzzing, and the reviews are glowing - wow: that really used to motivate me!
But now ... that's not mine to enjoy any more.
Now ... well: for the last 8 years or so it was just the feeling of needing to serve my characters. They had come to me in ones and twos, they had instructed me as to their 'voice', their attitudes and their styles of action, and they had promised me a wild ride.
And so I kept going to fill out their tale, to give them life and a shot at advancing their own hopes. Some died. Some stood aside - having served the bigger story - and some persevered despite injury and setbacks.
I did it for them, and for the few dozen readers who might eventually enjoy the same journey enough to read to its end.
Of course there is more, but I'm waiting for those few dozen readers to speak to me, now.
Because there's nothing left inside of me that is enough to motivate another word written.

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