Goodreads asked I. Wright:

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

I. Wright That . . . is an odd story. Like many first books (my most recent, hehe), "Godkin" had many, many incarnations before crystallizing (and yes, i say "crystallizing" in the sense that it was once ugly, ugly coal and now is my beautiful precious, little stone).

Anywho, the idea started as a dream. It was a time in my life when I had severe anxiety during the day and when I would sleep, that anxiety manifested itself in lucid dreams. That's right, lucid; those semi-horrifying experiences that grant you self-awarness in dreamland; i.e., you know your body is somewhere sleeping comfortably yet there you are, in a reality of your own mind's making. Yeah . . . those.

So in one particularly fantastic such dream, my mind created a magical world for me to explore. It was not far from home, just very, very old. When I reviewed my notes of the dream later on, I felt comfortable calling it Ancient Greece.

The details of my adventure in this dream-world were somewhat scarce. What stuck with me was the incredible emotions I felt during it. I actually woke from it crying.

You see, I was not myself in this made-up world. I remember peering through colorful sheets of silk hanging from the ceiling, the wind from an open balcony tossing them about, and knowing that I was in a bedroom. Not mine, mind you, but that of my beloved. And there she lay on the bed.

I did not know why but I was for some reason unable to save her. In this dream, her life, her "destiny" exisited in the form of a seed. And no matter where I planted it, no matter how much I cared for it, it would always grow into whatever "plant" it was supposed to be. I could not be with her. It was all about fate.

From this dream I began researching Ancient Greece and what characters would fit to tell this story. It didn't take long at all. Eros, the son of Aphrodite and Ares was absolutely perfect for this role. He parents are a love-goddess and a war-god; a natural conflict that, to my suprise hadn't exactly been hashed out in the old myths. Together with the Greek Myth of the Fates, well, "Godkin" was born.

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