Goodreads asked Chris Beakey:

How do you get inspired to write?

Chris Beakey I love this question but always feel like I'm not answering it in the way people expect. For me, inspiration hasn't ever been a problem. I'm always inspired by the need to write (I was going to capitalize "need" but don't want to sound obsessive, or whatever :). I'm an ordinary person living a fairly ordinary life, but the storytelling gears are always working in the back of my brain. This can be a good thing, as a story unfolds from my mind to the page, and it's certainly a lifetime thing since I can't imagine ever not being inspired, or running out of stories to tell. But I admit I sometimes wonder what it would be like to not hear those gears cranking in the background when I'm simply trying to live that ordinary life. I'm not special in saying this - I hear the same thing from so many of my friends who are writers. It's a quality that creates the whole kindred spirit thing.

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