Hannah Hulme Hunter
Newbie novelist, sometime midwife, lazy mountaineer, creative gardener. Writing first novel: a Great War romantic thriller of suffragettes and soldiers, the bravery of women, the duty imposed by men, and the pain of love.
Category Archives: the writing process
So you want to be a writer? Essential tips for aspiring novelists
Unbloat your plot and “whisper something beautiful”. Continue reading
Ten rules for writing fiction 2
Writing novels means the crafty, patient, selfless construction of effects. Continue reading
Ten rules for writing fiction 1
The first 12 years are the worse. Continue reading
Not an Expert!
In the end I don’t think it actually rained at all – but thinking about rain got me writing again. Continue reading
The Beginning of the End
The private, special, potent months of pregnancy are over and the kid’s arrived and it’s time to man up. Continue reading
The blank page
Even writing quick and dirty still leaves one facing each day that ultimate horror, the blank page. So here’s a trick I worked out whilst writing my thesis (on inter-professional learning on the labour ward; interesting but irrelevant for present … Continue reading
Writing dirty
Most of it is not even sentences – just notes, words, snatches of overheard conversation. Continue reading
In parenthesis and other tricks
One day I will apply this trick to a fast-paced contemporary hospital story. How much fun would that be? Continue reading
Show not tell, Archers style
I let my heroine do what we do in real life; feel and react. Continue reading
