Goodreads asked Jayelle Cochran:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jayelle Cochran Writing has always been a way for me to cope with...well...anything really. It helps with depression, pain, anxiety...everything but insomnia. lol When I'm really on a roll, with my fingers dancing on the keyboard at about 90 words per minute, I feel a certain high (endorphins anyone?). I think that's why I refer to such times as a "writing bender". On those days I will type approximately 1,000 words per hour, sometimes over the course of 12 hours (with breaks for meals). With Tara's Escape I had an entire month where I was on a roll and wrote 80,000 words. For me, that's unheard of. But, I get sucked into my own story and it's difficult to pull myself away. I always want to see how it will end.

So, I guess it's the story and the characters that inspires me to write. I always want to see what will happen next. :)

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