Goodreads asked Joshua Cox-Steib:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Joshua Cox-Steib Anything can be turned into inspiration if you're willing to tweak it and work with it. For minimal fictionizing and personal poignancy, I would choose a story of internal journey uncovering lost and repressed memories from a period in my youth when I regularly experienced a high level of seizures. The story would start with a question. How much of the narrative that I've been told, and tell myself, about my childhood is true to what I experienced at the time. This can be a significant inquiry for anyone but the element of disrupted neurology that assailed my brain creates a scenario where science and mystique can meet and blend. A paper trail of doctors would lead me down memory lane; the thick file of medical reports augmenting experienced reality in a way that brings the objective world around us and the subjective world we live within together in a healthy blend that reveals the compromises of truth.

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