Episode 27 In Conversation with Sarah Hilary

Sarah Hilary is the guest I chat with on this week's episode - and forgive me for it being a longer than usual episode, but I couldn't bring myself to delete any of our conversation. Sarah is such an interesting person to talk with, and I'm sure we could have carried on talking for a while. Amongst a raft of interesting stuff, here are some highlights to look out for:

• At 16:15 Learn about the importance of the thin skin we have
• At 20:10 We get into responding to feedback
• At 23:00 Sarah talks about focusing on what we have influence over as a writer
• At 27:00 Sarah quotes Iris Murdoch - 'a novel is a great idea ruined'
• At 29:00 I share Amie Kaufman's wise words about adventures
• At 34:05 We get into being true to our characters and our readers
• At 39:49 Sarah says about the darkest stories that we can tell can illuminate people's lives and comfort them
• At 45:00 Sarah talks of the benefits of community as a writer
• At 52:20 We're reminded of the need to be social as an introverted writer

Sarah's books
Someone Else's Skin
Black Thorn

The people Sarah mentioned to follow on Twitter
Megan Abbot and Jane Casey on Twitter
Red Hot Chilli Writers Podcast

Sarah's social media and web links
https://sarahhilary.com
https://twitter.com/sarah_hilary
https://facebook.com/sarah.hilary.author
http://instagram.com/sarah_hilary999

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