And I wanted to present the information in a conversational way, a conversation between peers. Indeed, the book covers everything from choosing courses to how to get out stains in an anecdotal, friendly, and reassuring manner. In the introduction, Hanson asks all the right questions. Reflections Although Hanson enjoyed writing the book and is proud of the final product, she has new respect for the rigors endured by the professional writer. What was hard was to be self-disciplined.
Writing is a very solitary activity.
It was lonely at times. If she had it to do over, Hanson explained that she would spread the actual writing process out over a longer period of time. In the immediate future, Hanson, a history and literature concentrator, is more worried about her upcoming senior thesis than writing another book. She is now in the process of applying for grant money in order to spend part of her summer in Natchez, Miss., a town she has been studying all year in her junior tutorial. Although her plans are not set in stone, at this point Hanson hopes to explore the relationship between architecture and the natural surroundings in Natchez.