Goodreads asked Jaden Terrell:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jaden Terrell I'm assuming you mean, how do I get inspired to write when the words aren't coming freely. When that happens, I step away from the keyboard and get a spiral notebook and a pen. Writing by hand is important, because it makes your brain work in a different way. Then I conjure up my main character (or whoever I'm writing about) beside me and start asking questions: And then what happened? What did that feel like? What did this look like? Usually, that's enough to jump-start me.

Sometimes I just start asking myself "what if" questions. What if x or y happened? What if this instead of that? By writing ABOUT the writing, I take off the pressure to make it perfect and stimulate a bunch of new ideas. Some I'll use, some I won't, but once the words start coming, I'll find myself adding pieces of dialogue or description, and then before I know it, I'm writing the story again.

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