Goodreads asked Rock Neelly:

How do you get inspired to write?

Rock Neelly I was pretty disciplined. If you wait for inspiration, you probably will always find something else to do. You have to make it something YOU DO. I wrote from 9-11 or 11-1:00 am, depending on my schedule. But not every day. I wrote in two hour bursts and then edited then next day or the day after.

But I wrote consistently. And edited out large chunks. What ended up being the prologue was original 50 pages in. Half the book was originally in a second person present tense in flashback sequences. Readers whose opinions I valued did not like that switching of voice, so I rewrote half the book. Huge pain, and then it sold. Huge gain.

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