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Goodreads asked Lyra Selene:

How do you get inspired to write?

Lyra Selene Inspiration must be grown; seeded and planted and watered and fertilized before blooming.

Inspiration is reading so much your eyes swim and your head spins with a thousand improbable star-lit fantasies. Inspiration is purposefully layering your eyes with wonder, and noticing how the most familiar things can be unfamiliar. Inspiration is a collaboration with the universe to see things not as they are, but as they could be.

And even then, inspiration must be married to hard work and commitment if it is to grow into anything really amazing. At the end of the day, inspiration can mostly be summed up in three words: Butt. In. Chair.

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