Alex Austin
There's usually an inciting incident. Something happens outside the normal patterns of daily life. It's not a large-scale event like the terrorist attacks in Paris or discovering water on Mars, but something small and personal. It stirs up emotion and gets me in a speculative mood: What if? That what if gets me thinking and writing.
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