How I used a Special Place to Kickstart My Writing

Phil Hurst
4 min readAug 15, 2020
Bluebell woods by my house Photo: Phil Hurst/Authors own/CC BY-SA 4.0

My last great idea came to me when I was trying to calm my one-month-old baby girl down during a nappy change. Which meant each time I changed a nappy for the following 15 months I’ve thought about that idea. Imagine my frustration, then, when I struggled to actually write anything. It turns out that I’d not thought enough about the setting for my story — once I’d figured that out, the writing was a…

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Phil Hurst

Storyteller. Specifically sci-fi, history, crime. Occasional advice giver. Find out more: www.philhurstwriter.co.uk