Goodreads asked Nancy Buell:

How do you get inspired to write?

Nancy Buell I write because it is the voice I have now, at my age. I think we all want our voices to go on, especially women, when our professional career has ended. I am inspired to say something. I'm sure you are, too. I do my best thinking in writing. I tend to get "flashes" of the beginning of a book, which I have learned to call "visitations" from my protagonist in the Alaska Cold Case Mysteries series. Annie is in there, and when I say I'm not going to write anything for a time, because 7 books in 5 years is a lot, she waits a day or two and then says something like "Annie woke up in the hospital." Then I have to go and see what she is talking about, and it all starts with just putting your hands on the keyboard.

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