Who are your favorite authors?
J.K. Rowling, for one. I love the way every one of her novels ends--I always feel proud of the characters for their growth, and for the most part they end on a happy, or at least a hopeful, note. I'm also a big fan of Orson Scott Card, specifically his book Ender's Game, which I first encountered in middle school, and have since read so many times my original copy's binding broke off.
What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
Imagining the future; when I wake up, I try to always have a goal in mind and I set steps for myself to accomplish it. For example, when I was working on my first novel (HTBAPG) I would wake up every day planning to write another chapter, and thinking about how the story would go, what twists I might've come up with and so on.
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