Goodreads asked Stephen J. Smith:

How do you get inspired to write?

Stephen J. Smith The best thing for me is to watch a movie or read a book or movie script. Before I sit down to write, I'll try to watch a snippet of a favorite movie, or plow through 20 pages of a screenplay. There's something about experiencing someone else's writing that stirs my creative impulse to write something of my own. I don't think it's a jealousy/envy thing (although that's definitely a factor sometimes), I think it's just the joy of seeing a story well told that drives me to want to find that success with my own material. Or, if it's a bad movie or book, it's the inverse--I want to write my own stuff because I want to do it better.

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