The Failing Writers Podcast
Join these 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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- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 143
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
S5 Ep13: Doug Naylor on Red Dwarf & Writing for Children
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Bbbrrbuummmbbbb....Lift off...fffwwoooooooooshhhhhhh.
This week we launch into a good ole' natter with the brilliant Doug Naylor, co-creator & writer of Red Dwarf.
We talk…
S5 Ep12: Ben Aaronovitch
We've got Ben Aaronovitch on the pod this week.
I mean, what else do you need to know?
That's the important bit.
Just that.
Ben Aaronovitch.
On this podcast.
Oh, apart from to say THANK YOU to our amazing …
S5 Ep11: Hamilton Nolan - Publishing laid bare
For many, the idea of having their book published is an actual dream. A beautiful, glorious, waking dream. But for others, perhaps even most writers, the dream isn't quite as dreamy as people might i…
S5 Ep10: A natter with Knappett - Jessica Knappett interview
Well oh my gosh, haven’t we got a right proper banger for you today?
I know. We spoil you.
But it’s only cos you’ve been so good recently.
Yeah. Don’t be coy. You have.
So we thought. Oh heck, why not…
Le…
S5 Ep9: Putting on an Edinburgh festival show - with Samia Rida
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Done that?
Brilliant. First step tow…
S5 Ep8: Thomas Taylor
Hello Children, welcome to another lovely wuvvly episode of The Failing Writers Podcast in association with Scrivener, a podcast for people who love to write and want to move ever closer to the elusi…
S5 Ep7: Open Mic Poetry Night
Poetry, as Percy Bysshe Shelley once said, lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
And so, off we go, to try and defamiliarise t…
S5 Ep6: Libbie Hawker: 10 years of Taking Off Your Pants
Right.
This week you're in for a treat. Cos, this week on the Failing Writers Podcast in association with Scrivener.... we've got a fantastic guest....
Pardon? Scrivener? You know! The brilliant writin…
S5 Ep5: Mur Lafferty - Facing Down the Demons
Welcome back to the Failing Writers Podcast - Sponsored by the brilliant and indispensable writing software: Scrivener.
Get 20% off Scrivener right now, by using the code FAILING at https://www.litera…
S5 Ep4: Adam Buxton: The ups and downs of memoir writing
First of all, thank you SCRIVENER for sponsoring Season 5!
You can try Scrivener free for 30 days. And if you love it, (which you will) you can use the code FAILING and get 20% off, you lucky, lucky d…
S5 Ep3: Lyrical Waxings With Paul Armfield
We nattered and we caterwauled 'bout lyrics, punk and bands,
and we shed a little light upon how melody can expand,
and we talked of books and words and how they sometimes change a man,
and by the end, …
S5 Ep2: C.J. Tudor is back
Hello.
Come here.
A little closer.
Closer.
Don’t be afraid.
There. That’s it.
I’m going to tell you a story.
A story about an author called C.J. Tudor.
Who many years ago, waaay way back in season 1, episode…
S5 Ep1: Jennie Godfrey
Aaaaaaand we're back.
Bet you missed us. Ah come on. Just a little bit?
Oh.
Well we're here now, so let's make the best of it.
Now... let's look at the menu.
What's for starters?
A delicious breakfast at…
Anything 4 U - Ep6 - Finished
Hello Worldwrights, The Failing Writers are now on a little sabbatical, plotting, (or possibly pantsing) the next season of the podcast and maybe... maybe... even writing some stuff? I'd like to thin…
Anything 4 U - Ep5 - Tipped
Hello Worldwrights, The Failing Writers are now on a little sabbatical, plotting, (or possibly pantsing) the next season of the podcast and maybe... maybe... even writing some stuff? I'd like to thin…
Anything 4 U - Ep4 - Swabbed
Hello Worldwrights, The Failing Writers are now on a little sabbatical, plotting, (or possibly pantsing) the next season of the podcast and maybe... maybe... even writing some stuff? I'd like to thin…
Anything 4 U - Ep3 - Catered
Hello Worldwrights, The Failing Writers are now on a little sabbatical, plotting, (or possibly pantsing) the next season of the podcast and maybe... maybe... even writing some stuff? I'd like to thin…
Anything 4 U - Ep2 - Dumped
Hello Worldwrights, The Failing Writers are now on a little sabbatical, plotting, (or possibly pantsing) the next season of the podcast and maybe... maybe... even writing some stuff? I'd like to thin…
Anything 4 U - Ep1 - Stripped
Hello Worldwrights, The Failing Writers are now on a little sabbatical, plotting, (or possibly pantsing) the next season of the podcast and maybe... maybe... even writing some stuff? I'd like to thi…
S4 Ep27 A Stroll Down Memory Lane
Hello and happy new year, you lovely lot.
Please allow us a moment of self indulgence now, as all three of us bring you a bonus episode looking back on where we were 4 years ago, when we first began t…