Goodreads asked Eleanor Coombe:

How do you get inspired to write?

Eleanor Coombe I am a control freak when it comes to writing. When I have the idea for a book I can't sleep for thinking about the characters and what they will do next. Then I get up early every morning and work at my computer. Very quickly, I disappear from the real word and enter the magic world. It is like going into the magic wardrobe. I enter this fabulous world where anything can happen, but where I am safe. So, the inspiration comes from inside the wardrobe, or from my magic life. Inspiration is lurking behind every plant, animal, rock or character in my magic land. Often my family has to shake me and wake me back to reality when I go to my imagination place. I love it there and it is the place that inspires me.

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