Goodreads asked A.G. Rivett:

How do you get inspired to write?

A.G. Rivett We are privileged in living in a very green and pleasant part of Wales. I get much of my inspiration from the natural world. This may be just walking, turning over some aspect of plot, or I might see something - it need not be dramatic - that I can write into the story. For example, an early draft of The Seaborne had chapter one beginning directly with Fengoelan, Targud and Dermot bringing their boat with its strange cargo in to shore. But one day I climbed Pen Coed y Foel, the hill opposite where we live, and watched these two ravens, more-or-less on the same level as I was, soaring back and forth on the up-currents. I came home and wrote in an entirely new beginning, with the raven from the sky watching the boat making landfall.

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