Goodreads asked Elizabeth Noyes:

How do you get inspired to write?

Elizabeth Noyes I do a lot of what I call "sleep writing." It's that in between state when you're not awake and not asleep, when your body is at rest but your mind is still running. I visualize scenes, run them through like a movie reel, rewind, replay, tweak, and polish. I might play a scene a dozen times before I commit it to paper. Other times, I hit a homerun on the first pass. It gets really interesting when I tackle complete dialogues!

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