Goodreads asked Rachel E. Bailey:

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

Rachel E. Bailey My most recent completed novel is called "In Shining Armor," and it'll be published under my pseudonym, E. L. Phillips. I got the idea for it from a writing group I was attending. The facilitator gave out prompts and the one I chose was meant to be a short story. Then I kept writing it and writing it even after the forty-five minute group was over. It soon went from short story, to novelette, to novella, then to prospective novel. I went nearly a year before writing the second half because I got stuck. Wrote myself into a corner, so to speak. But then a friend gave me the inspiration to continue because she wanted to know how it ended. And so did I. I finished writing "In Shining Armor" in two to three weeks, perhaps almost a month, after I took it up again.

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