Goodreads asked Daniel Hecht:

How do you get inspired to write?

Daniel Hecht I varies every time! I have written seven novels now, and yet I cannot claim to have the foggiest clue as to how to write them . . . As strange as it may seem, I based Skull Session on real events that happened to me. I wrote The Babel Effect because I wanted to explore the origins of violence and altruism. . . In the Cree Black series, I wanted to explore ideas of the supernatural, or at least the psychology of the supernatural, and I wanted an excuse to visit the marvelous places I set the novels in.

On Brassard's Farm derived from my experiences living far out in the woods on Hooker Mountain, near Peacham, Vermont, and from a desire to explore the varied dimensions of love -- romantic and otherwise.

More and more, what inspires me is a central feeling or sense of what's true and beautiful. Of course, I don't always know where that center is, so I sort of circle it, spiraling in toward it through intuitive guesses. When get a clear sense of it -- then I get excited and the novel starts to write itself! It's the greatest feeling . . .

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