Hannah Hulme Hunter
Author, sometime midwife, timid mountaineer, fair weather gardener, off-road runner, unrealistic romantic. Refining my first novel - a Great War epic of suffragettes and soldiers - and writing the next.
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Getting started with beta readers
If a friend offers to read your book, smile sadly and explain at length what an onerous and tedious task this would be. Continue reading
On writing only what you know
The best way to end up with something dead on the page? Write only what you know. Continue reading
Accepting the inevitable
I’ve now accepted the inevitable. I’m writing a love story. Continue reading
Less is more
My original aim was to write a feminist social history of early 20th century England focusing on the contribution of militant suffragists with additional modules on rural deprivation, mental illness, and temperate climate horticultural. Continue reading
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Aristotle, Cinderella, and the Three Act Structure
The Three Act Structure is one of those writery rules we should know – even if we’re going to be terrible brave and alternative and break it. Continue reading
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In praise of … iThoughts
iThoughts: intuitive, adaptable – and the pleasing graphics, colours and gentle sound effects give a nice little dopamine hit 😉 Continue reading
Raising the stakes
I’ve become a teeny-weeny bit wary of writing exercises because they can so easily become yet another excuse not to actually write. But there are exceptions! Continue reading
Question time
Writing your Bestseller by Bernard Cornwell, Historical Novel Society (1997!) I seem to get something new out of this article every time I come across it on Twitter. Today, I focused in on Cornwall’s advice on story-telling: Every good story … Continue reading
Dirty drafting
The beauty of this method is the lack of pressure to be perfect; perfection only creeps in by degrees much later. Continue reading
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Editing for Beginners
I’m editing for plot and pace, continuity and cohesion, balance and beauty. Continue reading
