Goodreads asked Robin Elder:

How do you get inspired to write?

Robin Elder My vivid imagination is such that I always thought I could weave a darn good tale, especially if historical fiction was the genre. My next motivation to write became the simple question: What if? What if I took actual history and embellished the events with a “and what if this happened, too” scenario. You know, it may not have really happened, but it could have. And then to entice the reader further, I could tell it in dual timelines, so any questions not answered in the older timeline get answered in the newer timeline. And vice versa. Well, voila! You have my first dual timeline book, Vindication Key, inspired by my annual trips to the Florida Keys. For those of you that have read it, you know that it’s rather short. It would be considered what’s known as a novella. I’m probably most suited to writing novellas, as I like to move my story along, keeping the reader interested throughout. I don’t use much filler, as I myself don’t like filler when I’m reading. I had a vision of Vindication Key’s plot and made it happen. I think I succeeded successfully since in several of the reviews I’ve received on Amazon, the reader said “I couldn’t put the book down.” And isn’t that the desired goal for both reader and writer?

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