Author: Paula Hillman
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Writing characters.
Regarding Stoney and Jill, the main characters in Seaview House, they very much grew out of the landscape I created. Stoney’s character is firmly grounded in my own knowledge of nineteen-seventies schoolboys living on Walney Island; he smokes, uses lots of expletives and colloquialisms, and is bonded to the landscape in a way that has…
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Big news…
Well…big news! I passed my MA with DISTINCTION! Thanks to the friends and family who have taken an interest and supported me, and a big shout-out to Lancaster University Creative Writing department…they were wonderful. I enjoyed every minute of the MA, and those who know me know where I’m heading next!! If you’re interested in…
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Seaview House: the journey of my first novel
Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. Rebecca Solnit. My head has long been full of…
Paula Hillman, author 