Goodreads asked Eleanor Lerman:

How do you get inspired to write?

Eleanor Lerman The secret is not to expect to be inspired but to discipline yourself to work every day. Sometimes, a thought or an idea or a few words can, indeed, inspire a poem, but most of the time you have to think of writing as your job. You go to your desk every day (in my case, my desk is a purple couch with a little white dog at my feet) and go to work. You have to train yourself to do that, but it's the only way. If you wait for inspiration, you will never get anything done.

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