Goodreads asked Nirmala Moorthy:

How do you get inspired to write?

Nirmala Moorthy Usually I witness an interesting happening, or even read about it in the newspapers, and I feel it should make a compelling climax to a book. I work backwards like, I'm told, detective novelists who have to keep the reader in suspense, or at least interested, till the last page. I then have to work hard to create characters that have childhoods and family circumstances that make them plausible. In delving into their (imaginary) histories plot twists seem to crop up on their own.

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