Goodreads asked Kyle Noland:

How do you get inspired to write?

Kyle Noland I think about my mother writing after my father died when I was very young. My mother often escaped into writing romance novels. She never remarried or really even dated after my dad, which was over 30 years ago at this point! I'd read her handwritten pads of paper and see how she built a world in which love was never lost. It taught me how valuable fantasy (or fiction)is, and how it can save you from a world too hard to handle at times. I too need just as much saving from the real world as my mother did, so I write to survive, in a sense. When I absorb the world around me, it builds up as this sort of dark pool of energy. I write when I need to release it. I don't ever "do" anything to get inspired, the inspiration finds me, in little pockets of darkness and chaos of the world around me.

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