Goodreads asked Nicole Hubbard:

How do you get inspired to write?

Nicole Hubbard Ideas come various ways. Sometimes, I get a single image or scene in my head, and as I begin to write out what I see, a story begins to form. A few times, stories have stemmed from an abstract journal entry where I was struggling to portray my feelings. Some character usually ends up with those burdens and/or character flaws.

I love taking walks, and as my mind wanders, since it always does, I begin to ask myself random questions about stuff you never think about in everyday life. What if I just lived in this park for a few days? Where would I hide, and who would I meet? What if I could turn into a bird and watch people from the trees? What sorts of things would I find out? Would my old life seem small and far away if I could see it from a bird's eye view?

Some of these odd and random questions went into creating the scenario for Dalan Raymer as I went about writing the DA Shadow Phantom series.

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