Goodreads asked Len Joy:

How do you get inspired to write?

Len Joy Notwithstanding my comments regarding how to deal with writer's block, I think of writing as a job, like any other job I've had in my life. For the most part I have been fortunate to work at things that I enjoyed doing. But that didn't mean I wanted to show up every day, but I did. And that is how I look at writing. I have to show up every day. Sometimes I may be doing other writing related activities - critiquing someone else's work, reading better writer's works to see how they do what they do, watching good film dramas, to try and learn effective storytelling. Reading Poets & Writers and wishing hoping I could be one of those writers profiled someday. All of those things help me to remain engaged in the writing profession.

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