Goodreads asked Joseph Éamon Cummins:

How do you get inspired to write?

Joseph Éamon Cummins I know it sounds a bit trite. But you are a writer, your senses are more attuned than the non-writer, you see and sense and feel things that others miss. This is your gift.
Use this gift to explore the 'ordinary' things that others take for granted: the way one person looks at another, the exact language someone uses to make her point, the way the person's face reconfigured when he was insulted, how precisely the woman back-pedalled when the door shook . . .
In short, writers are observers. When you are searching for inspiration, observe very closely, any thing, then try to capture in words what your senses experienced, even if you'll never use what you write.
This helps you to validate your gift, reminds you that inspiration is all around you, that you create, and that you cannot wait for the muse - you must be the muse.

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