Writer's Therapy

Writer's Therapy

By Joseph HunterFiction
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Writer's Therapy episodes

  • 5: Practicalities

    After the doing comes the selling. We think about the process of submitting work to literary agents, why it can be difficult, and speculate about the usefulness (or otherwise) of positive visualisation.

    Bernadine Evaristo interview: https://www.shortstoryaward.co.uk/news/interview-bernardine-evaristo/


    15 min
  • 4: The Unique Creative Genius
    Is it the job of a writer to be different? Or is it possible that in aiming for something unique, experimental writing puts 'being different' over other important functions of literature?Quote from 'Modern Fiction' (1919), by Virginia Woolf: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/monday-or-tuesday-by-virginia-woolf#
    16 min
  • 3: The Well of Experience

    If we aren't having new experiences, will we run out of material from which we can create fiction? Or is there an unlimited 'word hoard', as Seamus Heaney describes it, we can delve into as long as we keep our eyes clear? We think about lockdown, and how it may or may not have affected writers.


    'North', by Seamus Heaney: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48393/north-56d22998bff6c

    14 min
  • 2: Evanescent Reveries

    A piece of writing can only be worth something once it's actually written. If it lives only in our minds it can only ever be, as Joseph Conrad once wrote, an 'evanescent reverie'. Sometimes, however, it can be difficult to bridge that gap between reverie and reality.


    'A Set of Six' by Joseph Conrad: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2305/2305-h/2305-h.htm

    15 min
  • 1: The Writing Cave & Negative Capability
    In this first ever episode we compare writing fiction to being a hermit living in a dark cave. We also touch on John Keats' concept of "negative capability", and how it relates to writing short stories versus novels.
    18 min

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