Goodreads asked R.C. Goodwin:

How do you get inspired to write?

R.C. Goodwin An idea can come from anywhere – from something that happened to you, or something you read or heard about. Example: one of my sister’s friends was raped. They caught and convicted the assailant, and he received a long sentence. In the state where this happened, the Dept. of Corrections had a program to bring together the perpetrator and the party who’d been attacked for several . As a psychiatrist who worked in prisons at the time, I thought the idea was intriguing. It inspired a short story of mine, called “One to One.”

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