Goodreads asked Anne Hagan:

How do you get inspired to write?

Anne Hagan Inspiration strikes at the oddest times. For example, I have a day job as a government employee in a customer facing position. Someone will come in and say something that will trigger something and I'm off to the back to scribble down what I thought of as soon as they're out the door. That often leads to me later writing 500 or 1,000 words that I wouldn't have had before.

In non-fiction, they say to write what you know. That works for fiction too. I observe what's going on around me and I use it to tell short stories that I can weave together.

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