Bethany asked Lindsay Ribar:

What inspired your magic cliff idea?

Lindsay Ribar I... honestly wish I could remember. I'm not sure it came from anything in particular, but I do remember how it came up. I was spitballing plot ideas with a critique partner, early in the drafting process, and one of us said "there's a magical cliff that'll fall and kill everyone!" and the other one of us did a "yes, and?" instead of saying "that's stupid!" I sort of expected it to be one of those plot points that only stuck around long enough to get me to the end of the draft, whereupon I would cut it. But nope. It survived.

Let that be a lesson, I guess: The Cliff always survives.

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