Helen Hunt - One Thing I've Learnt

One Thing I’ve Learnt …




I’ve been writing for seven years now, and teaching writing
for nearly a year, and one thing I’ve learnt is that you never stop learning.




One of the most satisfying things about teaching writing is
that I learn as much from my students as, I hope, they learn from me. Every
time a student asks a question about writing it makes me examine how and why I
write as I do. Every time I do a critique of a story for a student I learn
something that I know will help me in my own writing.




I’ve also learnt that I love teaching. Explaining to others
how short stories work, and how to write them well, is a joy. And when a
student ‘gets it’, and I realise I’ve been able to help them achieve that
eureka moment, it makes it all worthwhile. Recently, one of my students sold
her first story and I think I was almost as excited as she was.






Learning as you go is one of the best things about writing,
and as I continue to write, and try new and different styles of writing, I hope
to keep learning, improving and being able to share that with others through
teaching.




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