Goodreads asked Robin F. Gainey:

How do you get inspired to write?

Robin F. Gainey I read something that has to do with the story I am writing. The novel I'm currently writing is partially set in WWI France, so I have been reading about that period, along with travel books about the area of northern France. I always put together a soundtrack for the novels I write and listen to it on my daily walks as I think about plot and story. I am a very visual writer so I tend to see my scenes one the "screen" of my imagination as I think. I also visit the settings if I can. My second novel (not yet published) is set in eastern Wyoming. I spent a few weeks making out the trek of my heroine. The reader will be able to follow the footsteps of the protagonist if they wish. I loved that about Michener's Chesapeake. I was reading it as my husband and I drove around Maryland.

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