Goodreads asked Brenda Carre:

How do you get inspired to write?

Brenda Carre I get inspired to write by enchanting my muse with the sound of my fingers tapping the keyboard. If I write regularly and at a routine time it becomes a habit. Some days are harder than others but I sit down and get to work. There is no substitute for doing it. I get ideas all the time. Some of them get turned into stories and some don't. There usually has to be a spark of excitement there that makes me start writing, but beginning and pushing into a story is for me the only way to generate the momentum I need to keep going until I finish the first draft. I often warm up in the morning by writing in my journal. Sometimes I do this in a file on the computer and sometimes I write long hand. Ideas come from everywhere--from reading, from listening to music and from talking to people. It's the 'what ifs' I like to write about. I sold a short story this year that is coming out in 2016 called The Crow War of Willows Beach. The 'what if' I had to answer in that story was: what if the crows on this one beach aren't crows at all but the alternate forms of ghost children who have been enlisted into a magical war to save humanity. Once I asked myself this question, I had to write the story to find out the answer.

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