Goodreads asked Michael K. Dane:

How do you get inspired to write?

Michael K. Dane I have written all of my life. I kept journals and wrote every day. They were a valuable resource and really fascinating to read years later, even for me.

I have had a long, very colorful and eventful life from California to New York City to Iran to South Africa during apartheid as a young ballet dancer and learned by living and observing.

I have told these stories of my life so often at parties and dinners and people always asked my to write them down ...so I spent in 2000 I started and for the next 18 years I wrote! First writing out those stories from my past, from my journals, then re-writing the book four more times, each time finding the threads of plot and discarding and honing, until I had the current book you see now.

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