Writer's Therapy

Writer's Therapy

By Joseph HunterFiction
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Writer's Therapy episodes

  • Sunlight is a gift

    J.W. Turner knew about the sun. Thoughts on anhedonia, and seeing the way out. The daily exercise of the mind; new YouTube follows. A new poem. An old play.


    Readings: speech from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare; 'The Fighting Temeraire (1838), by Joseph Hunter (unpublished).

    16 min
  • It's how you shape it

    Learning the piano is a lesson in craft and art, and forces you to be humble. There is no writing/piano playing analogy, you imagined it.


    Reading: 'Dream piano' (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter

    18 min
  • Babies, books, and Knausgård

    I visit baby-raising friends, am enchanted, reflect on child-rearing as a creative process and an exercise in the unreliability of time/perception, and re-read some Knausgård.


    Reading: extract from A Man in Love (2009), by Karl Ove Knausgård.

    19 min
  • Life is a performance

    Marina Abramovitch reminds me that there is a fine line between 'real' life and performance art. And that, sometimes, going out and getting drunk with the one you love is what life is about.


    Reading: extract from The Birds that are Caught (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter.

    18 min
  • The Unifying Spirit of Intent

    A dark night of the soul has me questioning many things: my life, my writing, and my output – but not necessarily in that order.


    Reading: 'WHITES WASTE PAPER' (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter

    12 min
  • A Solitary Pursuit

    I remember the joys of creative collaboration from years gone by. Writing is an inherently solitary pursuit, but that doesn't mean there aren't consolations to be had within that solitude.


    Reading: Extracts from '10 Rules for Writing Fiction', The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/20/10-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-two)

    16 min
  • When the Words Come

    Writing is habit-forming, which is the good news. The bad news is, that habit is a slippery thing that can be elusive and untrustworthy.


    Readings: Extracts from the journals of Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Hero's Body (2016) by William Giraldi

    15 min

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Thinking about writing, talking about writing, and getting writing out of my system.