Writer's Therapy podcast

Writer's Therapy

Joseph Hunter

Thinking about writing, talking about writing, and getting writing out of my system. I'm Joseph Hunter: fiction writer, Creative Writing PhD candidate, and teacher. This podcast sees me reflect on the writing process, why we write, and how we can write better.

35 episodios

The place the beginning seems to be
23/12/2025
20:38
Home for Christmas; wonderful family news; the eternal in the everyday.Reading: 'Walking Home' (Merion West, 2025), by Joseph Hunter
Sunlight is a gift
14/12/2025
15:38
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 An old play.Readings: speech from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare; 'The Fighting Temeraire (1838), by Joseph Hunter (unpublished).
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It's how you shape it
7/12/2025
17:18
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 There is no writing/piano playing analogy, you imagined it.Reading: 'Dream piano' (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter
Babies, books, and Knausgård
30/11/2025
18:55
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.
Life is a performance
10/10/2025
17:48
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out and getting drunk with the one you love is what life is about.Reading: extract from The Birds that are Caught (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter.
You're building a cathedral
28/9/2025
16:28
New cat. Same writer. More positive? Trying.Reading: 'Her lost children', by Joseph Hunter.
Write Your Worries, Don't Let Your Worries Write You
21/10/2024
13:33
Almost a year has passsed; I have published; I am older; no beauty without mortality; birthday DVD marathons; poetry. Reading: 'History Among the Rocks' (from Kentucky Mountain Farm), by Robert Penn Warren.
The Unifying Spirit of Intent
8/12/2023
11:50
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 Reading: 'WHITES WASTE PAPER' (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter
A Solitary Pursuit
30/11/2023
15:26
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)
When the Words Come
23/11/2023
14:58
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

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