Goodreads asked Heather Dark:

How do you get inspired to write?

Heather Dark I was a full-time working mother of three young children when I started writing The Designer Wife, so I would have to write in the evenings and sometimes early into the morning hours when the house was quiet.
Fortunately, I'm a night owl anyway, so I was inspired to write something every night, even if it was only a single sentence. Occasionally, I would write on weekends.
While I was determined to write this story, I didn't set myself a deadline for the novel. I knew it would be finished when it was finished, and when I was happy with it. It ended up taking five years to write.

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