Goodreads asked Maggie Lynch:

How do you get inspired to write?

Maggie Lynch Everything around me inspires me! I write about people who face hard times and have to dig deep to get through them. All my stories have some basis in real life--real emotions and struggles. In writing these stories I'm reminding myself how we all make hard choices, and it is those choices that define us.

As my tag line says: "Stories of making heroic choices one messy moment at a time." I love everyday heroes. I believe we can all be heroes if we just take a moment to think, to see, beyond our own needs. A hero can be someone who notices someone struggling to get groceries in the car, and offers to help. A hero can be someone who advocates for doing the right thing even though its not popular. A hero is someone who chooses to help another, to advocate for another, to love another even though it's scary, it's hard, or it's downright confusing.

Those messy moments, unsure moments are so interesting and so amazing! People inspire me every day and I want to record those moments in my stories. Those stories inspire me anew and I hope inspire others by showing how one person gets through the tough times and comes out a better person, a happier person in the end.

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