Goodreads asked Ailsa McFarlane:

How do you get inspired to write?

Ailsa McFarlane For me personally, I'll take inspiration anywhere I can find it - all the best stories are, for me, simple ones that strike at something that feels honest, and all of those stories have been used over and over again in many different ways. Don't worry about feeling like you shouldn't use them just because they've already existed in other forms. Take scraps of ideas from other places, from other people's conversations, from films and books. Take all the little scraps that caught your eye and put them together.

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