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 Ep24 The Lost Art Of Letter Writing
Don't forget you can still get 20% off SCRIVENER using the code 'failing' until the new year - so do that first before you get side-tracked with all the less-important Christmas stuff.OK. Done that? Great. Now listen to this lovely episode … -
S4 Ep23 Resuscitating The Subject of English (pt2)
Time to finish our letter to Bridget Phillipson, and once again thank the incredible teachers we spoke to, and the pupils for their fabulous creative writing.And hey, thank yourself too! Whether you like it or not, you're now part of our p… -
S4 Ep22 Resuscitating The Subject of English … (pt1)
"Thank goodness for the Failing Writers."A phrase you've no doubt overheard people say quite a lot over the years. At bus stops. Maybe in libraries? At the off licence?No? Not even the off license?Oh.Anyway - not to wo… -
S4 Ep21: Henry Normal & Performing Poetry
If Tom & Jon wrote poems‘spose it will be assumedThey won’t be as good as Henry’sNormal service will be resumed.In this episode, we meet up with Henry Normal: poet, writer of famous sit-coms, TV producer and po… -
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…
