Goodreads asked H. Claire Taylor:

How do you get inspired to write?

H. Claire Taylor Inspiration hurls itself at me like a drunken underage dude with a fake ID at a smoky bar, but only whenever I'm not sitting in front of the computer. The Internet is the death of inspiration, if you ask me, because it's a place where most of what you see is tailored to what you like--ads, your Facebook feed, the folks you follow on Twitter, what sites you frequent.

But when you go out in public, life doesn't give two shits what you like and will shove all kinds of garbage in your "safe space" that challenges you and forces you to make sense of it. So that's where I best find inspiration. Or rather, inspiration finds me. But then again, I write comedy. There's never a lack of material for that.

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