Season 2: The Home Season
Welcome to the second season of Creative Momentum with Meg. This season is features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I talk to them about their processes, routines, inspiration and more to explore how and why people do their creative work.
Episode 4: Amanda Hewitt, Debut Author
What does it look like to write a debut novel while working three days a week, raising three boys and fitting in words wherever you can snatch them? On the lounge, in the kitchen, on post-it notes stuck to the back of your phone?
This week’s get is Amanda Hewitt. Amanda is an Australian romance author whose debut novel The Last Resort, an over-40s romance with baggage, was released in February this year. In this conversation, Amanda shares what it means to be a pantser, why her best writing happens between 5 and 7 in the morning with just her and the dog and how a holiday in Fiji reminded her that love stories are absolutely everywhere if you know how to look.
She talks about the book that started as a spy drama and became a romance, the magpie out the back that sings for its food, and why writing in the chaos of family life isn’t a workaround. It’s just how it works.
And her piece of wisdom for anyone sitting on a notebook full of ideas? Stop taking the ideas down. Start writing the book. Because unless you have something tangible, you don’t really have anything at all.
Connect with Amanda Hewitt
Book The Last Resort
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A special thanks to Yvonne Morton for the music accompanying this episode. You can find Yvonne on Bandcamp and Instagram.
