Goodreads asked Dan Martin:

How do you get inspired to write?

Dan Martin I have a routine. I get up every morning at 3:30am and write for a few hours before I head off to work. So while every now and then I'll find some nugget of inspiration walking down the street, or laughing with friends, or playing video games, and thinking "that's an interesting idea!", more often than not, my "inspiration" is simply writing. I'm inspired to write by writing. I know that sounds silly, or academic, but my best writing comes when I sit down to do the work. I love writing. So it's in this block of time that I'll write some sentence, or some line of dialogue that makes me smile, and know that I couldn't have written it if I didn't push myself every day to get up and do the work.

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