Becky Hunter, author of 'One Moment' - A look inside the world of publishing, why thinking about what sells doesn't always work, and dealing with rejection
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Becky Hunter's debut novel is 'One Moment'. It looks at best friends Scarlet and Evie, incredibly close until a tragic accident changes everything. It talks about why just one moment makes a huge difference. It's already been sold across the world, and we talk about how this has finally happened. It took Becky a while to get published, and it was only when she stopped thinking about what was on trend and what might sell, that she found the space to write something personal that got her published.
Becky works in the publishing industry, helping others sell their own book, we chat about how she feels now the shoe is on the other book. You can hear why lockdown gave her a very idyllic place to write, why a simple colour change really helps her day, how she dealt with rejection, and why a mix-up let to her plot.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome along to writers' routine. This week we're chatting to Becky Hunter. Her new novel |
| 0:14.2 | is One Moment. We talk about how she dealt with rejection and how she figured out what might |
| 0:20.0 | sell and whether that affected what |
| 0:21.7 | she actually wrote. Also, we tap into her huge daily word count and she runs through why you |
| 0:29.0 | shouldn't worry about first draft perfection. And I think it was Terry Pratchett that said |
| 0:33.3 | the first draft is about telling the story to yourself and then the other drafts are about |
| 0:37.7 | telling it to somebody else which has really stuck with me and I think that's so true for me |
| 0:43.0 | I really I need to figure out the story and that might mean then I have to go back and change some |
| 0:48.8 | of it and it's quite often so interestingly both with one moment and the book I'm writing now |
| 0:53.2 | the second book I hit the kind of |
| 0:55.1 | 40-50,000 word mark and then it becomes clear that something's not quite working so then I had to go |
| 1:02.3 | all the way back and change stuff and do kind of a like semi-big edit in the middle of the book |
| 1:08.8 | before I could then go on and do it, which I know |
| 1:11.0 | some authors really don't like that, you know, you're supposed to get it all down first |
| 1:15.0 | before you go back and tinker with the edits. But for me, because I knew the direction of the |
| 1:19.5 | story was going to change, I sort of had to get it right in the first half of it before I could |
| 1:24.0 | carry on going. |
| 1:24.7 | There is more with both sides of writing and selling books with Becky Hunter in this |
| 1:28.9 | week's writer's routine. |
| 1:37.6 | Yes, welcome along to the show. |
| 1:39.5 | It's writers routine where we take a look through an author's working day. |
| 1:42.8 | Just seeing how they get stuff done, |
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