Goodreads asked Marlene K. Slade:

How do you get inspired to write?

Marlene K. Slade I get inspired at the oddest times to write a novel. There are very few times when inspiration makes sense. Music Box Danseur is one of the few times the story entered my mind at an understandable time. I was attending a ballet with my mother. It was a collection of short performances clipped from many popular ballets. There were about five pairs of principal dancers that stepped on stage to showcase segments from Swan Lake, Cinderella, Giselle, and various other romantic ballets. We were more than half way through the show when my mind began focusing on the couples more than the dancing. The story started coming into my head rather quickly. All the pairs that appeared on stage were of the opposite sex, but I stopped seeing them as such and replaced them in my head with the males that lead the story I created.

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