Goodreads asked Julia French:

How do you get inspired to write?

Julia French I stare at my keyboard and say to myself, "okay, bitch, write something!" Well…not really…or not mostly…but occasionally. Seriously, something that inspires me is when I have a weird situation I want to explore, like what it would be like to live on an actual body farm. Since I write horror fiction, I think of things that horrify me, and write about those. Reading online news and watching tv and movies often sparks the idea machine for me. If all else fails, I get out my copy of one of the worst novels ever written. I read a few pages and think to myself, I can write better than this! And then I go to the keyboard and do it.

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