Goodreads asked S.C. Skillman:

How do you get inspired to write?

S.C. Skillman People and events and settings inspire me. I listen to conversations, I study group dynamics, I observe life, and ideas then spring up. Ideas can often come when you are engaged in a wordless activity, like listening to music, or daydreaming, gazing out of the window, or going for a solitary walk. It's good to have some method of noting down ideas as they come. If an idea has real potential there is usually a strong emotional engagement with it. Ideas can also come through dreams. An idea should excite, or move an author - just as JK Rowling's first idea for Harry Potter excited her when she was on that train without pen or paper, and she kept the idea and all that followed from it in her mind throughout the journey.

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