Goodreads asked Travis Hefley:

How do you get inspired to write?

Travis Hefley Inspiration doesn’t arrive politely—it slips in when you least expect it. Sometimes, it’s a fleeting glance, a touch that never comes, but somehow lingers anyway. Other times, it’s the ache of something unfinished, something that hums just beneath the surface, waiting to be felt.

I don’t just look for inspiration—I let it find me. In the hush of midnight, in the slow unraveling of a moment, in the way a single thought can thread through your mind and refuse to let go. It’s in the spaces between—between words, between heartbeats, between the breath that catches and the one that finally exhales.

Because that’s where the most powerful things live, isn’t it? In the tension. In the longing. In the moments that don’t just ask to be written, but demand to be felt.

And if you’ve ever read something that settled into you… something that whispered through your thoughts long after you put the book down… then you already know—
some words don’t just stay on the page.
They stay inside you.
And maybe… that’s exactly where they were always meant to be.

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