Goodreads asked Sue Simonich:

How do you get inspired to write?

Sue Simonich Inspiration turns itself on with the remotest of notions. Sometimes this will occur when I am asleep, or in listening to a particular piece of music. Hildegard Von Bingen is especially powerful in igniting the creative juices. Meditation is also helpful. The images come to mind and I begin mulling them over, fashioning them into a plot. I am also a historian, so everything I read is fair game for creating fiction. What is fiction anyway? It is simply remodeled or embellished fact!

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