Goodreads asked Ian M. Rogers:

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

Ian M. Rogers MFA Thesis Novel arose from my time in a graduate creative writing program at the University of Nebraska. I was working on a novel that no one in the workshop liked, and struggling to find my voice while getting a lot of unhelpful comments from my classmates that were geared toward writing the novel they would write, not the one that I wanted to write.

I realized that the writing workshop itself would make the perfect conflict for a novel, along with the stressed, low-budget life so many of us grad students were leading in a rapidly changing academic world where job competition was fierce. Once I had that sorted out, there was no turning back.

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