Goodreads asked Guy Winter:

How do you get inspired to write?

Guy Winter Having recently released a novel (in November), I'm hugely inspired by the reviews that readers have posted on Amazon, and relayed to me in person. As a writer it's unbelievably exciting when readers connect with a character that you have created, or an idea that you have developed. Suddenly your imaginary world has real inhabitants. You can never quite tell until the book is out and people start reading it what will resonate with readers! But more generally I'm inspired by reading myself- by novels, poems or movie scripts, or by watching films or listening to music. You're not trying to recreate what may be matchless, untouchable art. But when you are captivated by a story, a phrase or a song, you are in a state of imagination and a creative mind-set that might just give you your own ideas.

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