Goodreads asked Madison Michael:

How do you get inspired to write?

Madison Michael Thanks for this question.

I am inspired by everyone and everything around me. I observe, I listen, and I see a story in someone I meet, somewhere I go, everything around me. Then I add my imagination and hope you like where the combination of the two take me.

This week, I was waiting on an 'L' platform while changing trains. It was slightly drizzly, slightly foggy. Being the start of spring, trees on the street below the platform were just beginning to bloom in a glorious riot of pink against a dull red background of brownstone buildings. I took a picture, because it just felt to me like the setting for a story. Maybe not right away, but someday soon, that scene will end up in a novel.

Everything is inspiration. Everything.

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