Goodreads asked Madison Scott-Clary:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Madison Scott-Clary As frantic and perhaps neurotic as ally feels, its construction was approached in a very straightforward and intentional fashion. When I began writing it, I was working at Internet Archive, so I was surrounded by nostalgia on all sides. The Archive's whole purpose is to amass things that deserve not to be forgotten (which includes just about everything).

In the process of working with archival material, I got the idea to start archiving much of my own stuff via some of the tooling, so I began collecting old things of mine to add to the archive. I began with [adjective][species], a furry blog I ran, then a conlang i made back in high school, and then my old LiveJournal.

This, by necessity, sort of rubbed my face into my past. At one point, I came into contact with a (literal) conversational style of writing that I had latched onto in high school, and from there began just asking myself questions to answer. It flowed surprisingly easily!

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