Goodreads asked Chris Platt:

How do you get inspired to write?

Chris Platt I'm a journalism major and my professors pounded it into my head that as a writer you can't "wait to be inspired." You park your butt in the chair and you write. That's your job. That works for both fiction and non-fiction. Writers always have something floating around in their imagination. That's why we're writers. That doesn't mean that we always have the right combination of ideas, or that everything we write is perfect. But I find that if I sit down and just start tapping things out, pretty soon, I'm on the right track. Remember, you can always toss what you write and start over. Or you can see the good parts in what you've done and keep those and re-write it into something you love. Just park your behind in the writer's chair and write!

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