The Failing Writers Podcast
By The Failing Writers Podcast
Join three success-starved wordwranglers as they stumble towards their shared ambition: to become proper writers!
Learning from guests like bestselling authors and BAFTA-winning writers. Setting themselves writing tasks and trying to improve their craft. Discussing how to get past all the things that stop us writing. And hopefully taking you on a journey with them to become successful writers!
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S4 Ep 20 The Failing Writers Festive Flash Fiction Competition
Sorry? Did you just say you'd love to enter an almost free* festive flash fiction competition to win £500?I thought you did!Well as coincidence would have it, that is exactly what we've got going on in this very episode.So ste… -
S4 Ep19: Ergodic Fiction
What is ergodic literature? Well, it's when a story becomes more than just something you read, and you become part of it.But pretend you haven't read that, so that you can find out from listening to this wonderful episode. In which, we … -
S4 Ep18: What do we think of writing retreats?
Should you treat yourself to a writing retreat?If you did it twice would you be re-treating yourself to a writing retreat?If you tweeted about treating yourself to a writers retreat would you be tweeting your re-treat of retreating t… -
S4 Ep17: A Shortcut To Querying Success
Are you querying? or nearly querying? Maybe you’re fearing querying? Or merely getting weary and a bit teary querying? Well let’s hear from three writers who’ve been down in those querying trenches for a while now.Find out how they're … -
S4 Ep16: Let's put off procrastinating, with Oliver Burkeman
... What? Did 2 weeks just fly by since the last episode? No flippin' way.Time, I think, we had a chat about time. The fact that there's never enough of it. Especially for writing.Why is that?Well Oliver Burkeman might just ha… -
How do you know if your writing is good enough?
Well, that’s the summer hiatus done with - and we're back with an episode which asks the question "how do you know if your writing is good enough?"In an attempt to answer that we’re going to be looking at a couple of Tom’s flash fiction… -
S4 Ep14: How to become a full-time author... maybe
Do you have what it takes to quit your day job and follow your dreams to become a full time author?Well, there's only one way to find out...and that's to listen to our interview with J C Duncan!Hear how he bravely decided to give him… -
S4 ep 13: Tune that name! All about pseudonyms
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S4 Ep 12: Mike Gayle
A change is in the air here at Failing HQ. A scent on the wind, a signal that the new dawn will herald the arrival of long overdue success.This week, not only do Tom and Jon have a lovely chat with acclaimed author and current Richard and J… -
S4 Ep11: Samuel Burr & The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
If we were really clever, we'd have written the show notes for this week's episode in the form of a cryptic crossword clue in honour of our guest, Samuel Burr.We spoke to him about his debut novel "The Fellowship of Puzzle Makers", his fran…
