Goodreads asked Patricia Yager Delagrange:

How do you get inspired to write?

Patricia Yager Delagrange I am always happiest when writing a novel. It is something that takes me out of my current mindset and puts me into another world that's fascinating and fun. I have to be alone, with no one else around to bother me. Then I sit with my Mac on my lap and I start writing - dialogue usually. I love to write dialogue. When I began writing I wrote a lot of inner thoughts of the main character. That didn't make for a good book. It was too much telling and not enough showing. So I changed my style and began incorporating more talking and action between the characters. That's when my books began to have more substance to them and would thus make them more interesting to the readers I'm trying to reach, i.e. something "I" would want to read myself.

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