Since I was a young teen I've always felt the "need" to write, I've always jotted down ideas, kept notes about possible characters and stories. The desire to write compelling meaningful stories has always produced in me an almost gnawing sensation, something that had to be addressed or relieved. It is only in the last year and a half that I have been able to write full time.

I'm not sure that I "get inspired to write," as I have always been ready to write, but unable to address that need in any focused and sustained way until now.

A related question might be, "Why do you write what you write about?" As a person who loves deeply and desires for all of us to love deeply, I find myself drawn to stories about people waging combat against those demons that would keep us from being our better selves. The human drama is so complex and compelling and universal that I am perpetually inspired, I suppose, or motivated to write about it. We human beings make for remarkable subjects, and, to quote one of my characters, "... you and I are capable of extraordinary things--good and evil of the highest order and magnitude."