Goodreads asked Mariam Parra:

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

Mariam Parra Untold was a story that my friends from junior high and I made up together. It was a story about us, so there are a lot of things in that book that actually happened! Then there are other things that I made up to have an actual plot and not just pages of three friends having fun.

But most of my ideas come from dreams. I have a Dream Diary since I was in high school. I thought this was kind of odd, until I realized that a lot of writers also get inspired from their dreams.

Sometimes I dream of a character, or bits and pieces of a story.

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