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.

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The place the beginning seems to be
2025-12-23
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
2025-12-14
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 An old play.Readings: speech from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare; 'The Fighting Temeraire (1838), by Joseph Hunter (unpublished).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
2025-12-07
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 There is no writing/piano playing analogy, you imagined it.Reading: 'Dream piano' (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter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
2025-11-30
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
2025-10-10
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out and getting drunk with the one you love is what life is about.Reading: extract from The Birds that are Caught (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter.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
2025-09-28
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
2024-10-21
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
2023-12-08
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 Reading: 'WHITES WASTE PAPER' (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter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
2023-11-30
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
2023-11-23
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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