Donna Maree Hanson, Author, Phd in Creative Writing

Consider this interview a break and enter.

I break in and steal your know how. Consider this a hit and run. I want what you have. So put up.

Ainslie I’ve read ( I almost wrote stolen) Floored, which floored me utterly. Sorry bad pun.

Like with Grease Monkey Jive you really get into the characters’ heads, make them so three dimensional I think about them afterwards and wonder  how they are doing. The only other time that’s happened to me was when I read IT by Stephen King.

So spill. How do you do it? I’m not leaving here until you give me a hint, the low down, the how to, the…well how the bloody hell do you do it?

I wish I could give you satisfaction in a Rolling Stones kind of way. I fear I’m going to disappoint.

I assume I only do what…