Goodreads asked Jeffrey K. Walker:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jeffrey K. Walker Hmmm... inspiration. I don't seem to have "Ah ha!" moments. Maybe I'm too old for that now, but I hope not. Mostly, I find a time period or a setting or an overarching situation that interests me and I create characters and stories that go with the milieu I've chosen. I'm also not a "pantser"--just the opposite--so I spend a lot of preparatory time doing research and outlining the story, setting, characters, etc in advance. I lay out every scene on an e-index card (I use Scrivener software) that includes a few lines about the setting and characters, any bright ideas I have about the scene, and the one or two objectives I have to achieve in that scene. Then I just write down through my virtual stack of index cards. When they're gone, I'm done with the 1st draft. This also seems to keep writer's block at bay, at least for me. I always know what the next scene is going to be and what I have to accomplish in it.

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