Goodreads asked Pamela Poole:

How do you get inspired to write?

Pamela Poole Everything around me inspires me to write and paint! As an artist, I live like Leonardo da Vinci encouraged people to live--really stopping, observing, and thinking about something. In todays culture in America, we have lost the ability to really "see." The problem I have isn't inspiration, for I live in an almost overwhelmed state of fullness of inspiration. Carving out the time to write and paint is where I struggle. I have to take time for my priorities in life, and sometimes I admit that I become a bit dismayed at household chores or cooking dinner when a story is spilling out of me that I can't record, or an image I can't stop to paint. Yet those very things that fill up the time I could be creative in are also where my experiences for the endeavor spring from. It takes some attitude adjustment on my part sometimes to see the big picture and be patient.

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