Goodreads asked Emma Bamford:

How do you get inspired to write?

Emma Bamford I am moving into fiction and it tends to be a sudden thought of a germ of an idea for a story. I quickly scribble these ideas down and then think about them for a while. If the story grows in my imagination, I tend to think there might be a novel in it. Then the writing process starts and some of the ideas just don't work out at that stage. so I abandon them.
I am also a big believer in experiencing real life. How can you write convincingly if you are shut up all day in your room? So I get out and about, I observe the details of things happening around me, and that helps the whole process along.

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