Goodreads asked E.G. Michaels:

How do you get inspired to write?

E.G. Michaels Writing can be hard work. Some days are harder than others. The easy days are when I wake up and the creative juices are raring to go. As I answer this, I've published a novella and novel to date and I'm working on the next Kyle Simmons story. So my answer might change at some point in the future but right now, I work from an outline. The outline is just the key points I want to cover in a given scene. I'll look at my outline and the scene that gets me excited, that's the one I start writing. "Just write, don't think or edit" is my ongoing mantra. I worry about if an idea or scene makes sense later when I start to edit which is a different session. Otherwise, my internal editor takes over and kills my writing inspiration. Once I have everything written, it's onto editing and I typically do 4-5 rounds of edits before sending it off to my editor. It's during my final edits that I focus on making sure the scenes transition smoothly and tie together.

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