Goodreads asked Robert Brighton:

How do you get inspired to write?

Robert Brighton Writing is at least as much craft as it is inspiration, so sometimes inspiration can be a very simple thing — smell, or a snippet of speech, or the sound of wind or water. For me, when something strikes me hard, I think I’m being given a message that it’s somehow important. That’s enough for me to start writing about it, and see where it leads. And I like to sit with a steno pad and just let ideas come to me. There are no shortage of fresh ideas in this world, and all I need to do is to capture a few as they drift past my mind’s eye. I will say, though, that inspiration is a fickle thing … it comes and it goes, so when it does come, I have to drop whatever I’m doing and write.

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