Goodreads asked J.C. Long:

How do you get inspired to write?

J.C. Long I'm not fond of this question, because it implies that I need inspiration to write. If I sat around all day waiting for inspiration to strike before I wrote I'd never write. I create my own inspiration. Writing is work--you have to put in the effort. Sometimes it's difficult to force the words onto the page, but you have to, until those moments inspiration DOES strike. When it does, it's more often than not because of something I've forced myself to write, some epiphany it's given me.

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