Finding freedom in fiction
Hannah PlewsPublished on: 28/09/2026
What writing a character taught me about being stuck, and the distance fiction can give you when a feeling is too close to look at.
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The novel she wrote for no one
Hannah PlewsPublished on: 30/08/2026
Virginia Evans wrote seven novels that didn't sell before her eighth won the Women's Prize for Fiction. What that taught me about starting a story, and starting again.
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What two abandoned manuscripts taught me
Hannah PlewsPublished on: 14/08/2026
Two abandoned manuscripts, and the question I wish I'd asked before I let them go, before either one was finished with me.
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Is your creativity sliding off the cracker?
Hannah PlewsPublished on: 08/08/2026
A metaphor from the doctor's office that says more than I expected, about midlife, pressure, and where creativity goes when life gets full.
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