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Goodreads asked Iain Purdie:

How do you get inspired to write?

Iain Purdie Honestly, I struggle. At the moment I have so many pots on the boil that writing fiction is quite far down my list of things I have time for. Sometimes, though, the inspiration just takes me - right out of the blue - and I have to jot something down or records it, even if it's just in note form.

A lot of the action sequences I write, in particular, come together when I'm doing other things and something just catches my attention. My brain just squirrels off in a "what if...?" direction and two-three pages of prose follows!

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