Goodreads asked Jim Davies:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jim Davies For my nonfiction work, I get inspired by what I read. When I read something interesting, I think hard about why I found it interesting. Usually it's because it's related to something that I want to someday write a book about. When I figure this out I open my draft of that future book and force myself to address what I read in it.

When the draft has enough material for the book I'm writing, I then focus on making it a coherent work--cutting lots of things, moving them around, adding transitions, etc.

I call this "productive reading."

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