Goodreads asked Stephen T. Brophy:

How do you get inspired to write?

Stephen T. Brophy Sometimes through sheer force of will, sometimes through the burning need to get an idea out of my head and see if I can make it work on paper. Sometimes it's just a sentence or image that pops up and starts evolving rapidly and just can't be contained in the confines of the skull. I'm a huge comics reader, film and TV viewer, as well as a husband, father and modern American human, so I take inspiration from all of those sources and feed it through the grinder. Seeing how many people are churning out work in this genre, to varying degrees of success, I can't help but be further inspired to throw my stuff out into the world. Having known this was what I wanted to do since second grade, I took a long and circuitous route to get to the point where I was pumping out prose and sharing it with the world. Then again, circumstances have conspired to make this one of the best times to do just that.

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