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.
Tag Archives: war
Why Journey’s End didn’t make me cry
The one thing I think I feared was that Journey’s End would be given the Blackadder treatment. Continue reading
Posted in inspiration, the writing process
Tagged characters, film, history, soldiers, war, writing techniques
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Three books (soldiers’ diaries of the Great War)
Captain Charlie May is one of the kindest, funniest, most thoroughly decent men I have ever met, on or off the page. Continue reading
Five books (written during or soon after the Great War)
An irregular series of highlighting the resources which particular inspire or inform my writing. I read a lot of books written around the time of the Great War. There is absolutely no better way to immerse oneself in the language … Continue reading
Posted in inspiration, research
Tagged aftermath of war, fiction, goodbooks, research, soldiers, war, women, writing resources
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The awful attraction of war
I’ve had this quote on a virtual sticky note on my MacBook for several months and I want to tidy it away. It’s taken from a piece in the London Review of Books several years back on Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy … Continue reading
Three books (that bring the early 20th century to life)
Unrequited love and political intrigue; resources which inspire or inform my writing. Continue reading
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Tagged 20th century, art, goodbooks, history, London, non-fiction, research, war, women, writing resources
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Despair and despondency
These summer months were supposed to be a time of editing and elaboration, fact-checking and polishing but with every book and blog I read I feel a growing sense of inadequacy and futility. Continue reading
Posted in editing
Tagged characters, point of view, research, war, writers' problems
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Tinker’s shuffle
The importance of being open to surprise and being ready to learn from the unexpected. Continue reading
