Every month, I publish an answer to a reader's question. Here’s a transcript of my answer to one of my favorite readers' questions about my role models: Hi Lisanne, do you have role models - someone you look up to? And who is it? I admire people who devote their lives to helping other people, [...]

Every month, I publish an answer to a reader's question. Here’s a transcript of my answer to one of my favorite readers' questions: Heey Lisanne, I'd like to know what kind of things you often wondered about as a child? Thanks for answering my question! Around the time I was about nine to fifteen years [...]

For the annual AMA I've done with Insiders (you can become an insider over here), I publish one answer to a reader question every month. Here is another particularly interesting question I've answered about my writing habits: Hi Lisanne, I really enjoy reading your blogs. Keep going! I'd like to know... do you have any [...]

Every month, I publish an answer to a reader's question. Here’s my answer to one of the readers’ questions I've received about a life lesson I learned the hard way: Hi Lisanne, what is a life lesson you learned the hard way? Don't stay up too late even if the book is really exciting. You [...]

Every month, I publish an answer to a reader question. Here’s a transcript of my answer to one of my favourite readers’ questions: Is there something new you’d like to learn or be better at? Aside from mastering the writing craft, I’d love to speak several languages. It has always fascinated me to speak foreign [...]

This month I received the following reader's question, Hello Lisanne, in one of your essays you wrote about the willingness to write poor things first, and the importance of that when it comes to writing. What is your personal take on failure? In Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist Victor Frankl writes that life holds a [...]

Every month, I publish an answer to a reader's question. Here’s a transcript of my 10th answer to an interesting question about which art forms I find most exciting. Hi Lisanne, we know about your passion for books, and you clearly love to write. Is literature the most exciting art form to you? Thanks in [...]

Every month, I publish an answer to a reader question. Here’s a transcript of my answer to one of my favourite readers' questions: Hi Lisanne, if I asked you at age 5 what you wanted to be when you grow up - what would you say? In my very early years I wanted to be a [...]

Doing AMAs every now and then, enables me to get a glimpse of this readers' community. Your interests, ideas, and reflections. I publish my answer to readers' questions every month. Stay tuned. Here’s a transcript of one of my favorite readers' questions and my answer to it: Hi Lisanne, I'm an avid reader of your [...]