Goodreads asked Michael Scott Phillips:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Michael Scott Phillips When I was a teenager, I was sitting in a chair writing in a notebook. I dropped my pen and it fell somewhere next to the chair. When I looked down, it was gone. It couldn't have rolled very far; it was plush carpet. I searched under the bed, under the curtains, under the dresser, all of which were at least 2 feet away from where the pen had apparently fallen. I looked all around, eventually lifting the chair out of the way. I never saw that pen again. I'm convinced that one day it'll fall out of the sky somewhere, as if it had dropped into an interdimensional time portal.

That's it! Interdimensional time portals. One day, the pen drops out of the sky right next to me. I immediately recognize it and realize that the incident is part of a time loop. I soon discover that time portals are forming all over the Earth and decide to investigate.

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