Goodreads asked Edward Beale:

How do you get inspired to write?

Edward Beale I'm an engineer by temperament and training. But writing is one of the most direct ways to influence the human mind - like engineering thoughts. As a child I wrote stories in small booklets of paper sewn together with needle and thread, about comic strip characters or people on television. In my 20s I shifted to poetry, and took my 30s off from writing to concentrate on "life". When I can get back to writing it is like another part of my latent creativity reemerges. It is all too infrequent. A project helps force the issue.

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