Goodreads asked Jason J. Marchi:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jason J. Marchi Sometimes a character I've been thinking about for some time haunts my mind until I start writing that person's thoughts and feelings down. Sometimes its the idea for a story -- like a sweater that keeps growing bigger and bigger -- that drives me to explore, in words, what happens next and I HAVE to write about it until I'm satisfied that there is nothing left to write about the topic. When a story HAS to be written it keeps haunting me until I commit it to paper (or a Word file). Other times I know I have not written recently enough (no, I don't write ever day) so I must force myself to start typing. But that typing goes a lot better -- and I can truly work on a story and not just waste time writing nonsense sentences like describing trees or birds or such -- when I sit and read stories by others. When I read--both fiction and non-fiction--I will soon get a FLOOD of ideas for my own stories or articles or essays and sometimes even poems. Reading widely drives inspiration to do my own writing.

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