Goodreads asked Corky Farmer:

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

Corky Farmer I was discussing the writing I had done in the past with a friend and was asked about my absence from writing. After sending a couple of examples of unfinished manuscripts that were at various stages of story development, they kept turning the conversation to a minor character in one of the stories. Thinking about it later, I decided to write an entirely different story than what actually ended up on the pages.
Initially, I had a serial killer that gets thrust into a war zone after stealing the identity of a young man that was enlisting in the army during peacetime (spoiler! War breaks out!). By the time I got the story moving along, the path and characters changed. The story sometimes begins with an idea that gets swept away long before the finished work is ready for editing. What changed the story was the research and the characters becoming human.

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