Goodreads asked Melanie Howard:

How do you get inspired to write?

Melanie Howard Writing is mostly work not inspiration. I get inspired to work by sitting down at the computer and working. If nothing comes to me, which is infrequent, I'll write emails or Facebook posts until I am in the flow. As far as plot points and characters, anything can be an inspiration; a news item, a person I see on the Metro; an obituary. Obituaries are fascinating. So many people who are not famous have lead incredible lives.

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