Goodreads asked Nancy E. Blanton:

How do you get inspired to write?

Nancy E. Blanton Inspiration can come from anywhere -- a dream, a conversation, and image, a news article or another book, and so on. When I start researching a particular period of time, I usually have one or more characters in mind and the events of the time suggest what is about to happen and what the characters will do. I am also inspired by learning about historical people and things -- all research will take me down a path to something that fascinates me or that I needed to know.

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