Goodreads asked Steven Fox:

How do you get inspired to write?

Steven Fox My mind, for better or worse, speeds along like a hot-rodded Charger from a Vin Diesel movie. Getting inspired, or coming up with ideas, is as simple as deciding to peek out the window and glimpse the scenery rolling by. The trick of it is focusing on ideas I find interesting, and not bowing to trends. It's like the time my wife and I got sidetracked on a trip to Chicago. We wanted to avoid toll roads, and the GPS sent us out into the boonies. Some joke the Midwest is homogenous, with only mileage markers and signs to indicate any change between one cornfield-flanked town and the next. This particular swath of Illinois not only felt like the same four-way intersection repeated twelve times over, the only markers of change were an abandoned truck stop and motel on one of the corners. And I thought to myself, "What if we got stuck out here, and there was some crazy cultists lurking around?" I laughed, because I truly didn't believe that would happen. But a part of me, the Primal part, was interested in the possibility and what it might look like.

Inspiration is everywhere. Just look out the window the next you're driving around.

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