Yikes, I outed myself. I tend to view the first ending of a storygame as the "winning" and canon branch though. I always find it interesting when real life affects the current WIP. Some influences are more clearly shown, like yours. All the breathing/meditation stuff from Unbroken is directly from the yoga training I was doing at the time. And yes, Sterling is based on a real woman. The same tends to happen with whatever book I'm reading at the time, which makes me nervous as subconscious plagiarism is a tricky thing. If ever accused, I just quote Ecclesiates 1:9.
