Goodreads asked Smiley McGrouchpants Jr. Esq. III:

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

Smiley McGrouchpants Jr. Esq. III I'm writing a screenplay (whether anyone wants it or not). As a corollary to that answer, I can't write anything until it's determined I'm wasting my time or the thing's finished. How did it come up? Somebody on Facebook came up with something I thought so extraordinary I'd want to write a screenplay with her. She opted not to (no surprise!), so I was left finishing it myself. (This is real, "OLD SOUL," heavy kind of shit -- you'll only find out the reasons DECADES later -- but, for now, I'm seventeen pages into it, and not only not losing interest but writing with a newfound confidence I hadn't experienced before -- even in the 220+ pages of the three fiction books I've written and self-published thus far.)

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