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Goodreads asked Russell Bittner:

How do you get inspired to write?

Russell Bittner I think about a problem (or problems), a person (or persons), a setting (or settings) -- then try to imagine a beginning, a middle and and end. (It's something Aristotle suggested several centuries ago ... i.e., hardly MY idea.)

If I can do all of that to my satisfaction, I then sit down to try to work it all out with paper and pen.

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