Goodreads asked Carl D. Jenkins:

How do you get inspired to write?

Carl D. Jenkins Open your eyes and see the people around you, not as competition, but as individuals on their own paths. There is a reason for every action we take, usually several, and that fraction of a second we have to make each decision is ever in flux. Ask yourself three things for a curious event. Where is that person coming from? Where is that person going? What would happen if the balance of influences was just slightly different at that moment? Toss in the elements of your preferred genre and you have a story to write.

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