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Goodreads asked Meredith R. Stoddard:

How do you get inspired to write?

Meredith R. Stoddard Reading. I read everything, but history tends to inspire me the most. I like to take things from history and imagine what the people would have been like and what motivated them to do the things they did. "The White House" is a prime example of that. I heard a couple of legends about Blackbeard in Beaufort, North Carolina and started to mentally fill in the blanks.

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