Goodreads asked Lara Temple:

How do you get inspired to write?

Lara Temple Inspiration is a tricky concept. Before I wrote to be published, I used to write when an idea grabbed me, or when I was procrastinating. But when a publishing house actually expressed an interest in my first manuscript, I realized I would have to make some serious attitude changes. Waiting for the muse went out the window and I forced myself to sit down, every day (barring weekends which are kid-controlled) and write. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes awful (I chuck it in the ‘excerpt’ file), but it’s all part of the process – the story just unfolds as the words come out, the more I write, the more organic the story seems to become, often surprising me as it comes out. That doesn’t mean there aren’t moments of sheer inspiration, where ideas just beg to be captured and written down, but they often occur at 4am when one of my kids wakes me up and then I can’t fall asleep and I scribble them down through bleary eyes or record them on my phone. Sometimes those are my best ideas so inspiration does matter to e

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