Goodreads asked John Auber Armstrong:

How do you get inspired to write?

John Auber Armstrong Fifteen years at a daily newspaper disabused me of the idea that I require inspiration to begin writing. Inspiration comes most often while you're writing, not before. Beyond that, inspiration is really only a very small part of writing. My rough guess is that 99 per-cent is craft, and like any craftsman the more you do, the better you get, and the more skill you develop.
Oddly, the more skill you hone, the more you can take advantage of the brief, transitory, and wholly unreliable moments of inspiration which do come.
So the First Rule of Writing is always, "Place Ass on Chair, Begin Typing."

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