Goodreads asked Lorry Lutz:

How do you get inspired to write?

Lorry Lutz I guess it originally grew out of necessity. As a missionary in Africa I wrote newsletters, prayer letters, brochures and whatever was needed to keep our constituency in America informed about the work we were doing with African young people in Johannesburg. I earned my MA in Communications/ journalism when I was fifty. My professors encouraged me to write. Upon returning permanently to the USA in 1977 I followed up the kernel of an idea I'd started in a class on "How to write fiction." The Soweto Legacy" a novel about life under Apartheid, featuring a romance between an Afrkaans university student and a Zulu girl, served as catharsis for the pain I'd observed for more than twenty years.

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