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
S1 Ep22: A (not so) mystery guest special!
This week we yet again prove we couldn't arrange an over consumption of alcoholic beverages in a place that makes alcoholic beverages, and we do it in the company of a special mystery guest who's pri…
00:54:01 |
Sun 19 Sep 2021
S1 Ep21: Talking to best-selling Gillian McAllister!
Another great guest this week, in the form of Gillian McAllister. Sunday Times best-selling author, with the TV royalty seal of approval from Richard and Judy, she chats about her journey, her work a…
00:42:41 |
Sun 12 Sep 2021
S1 Ep20: Save the f%@#!ng cat
In this week's bl**dy episode, Jon reviews the mega-f***ing-successful screen-writing guide "Save the cat" - and then we have a motherf***ing chat about swearing. Listener discretion is f***ing well …
00:49:04 |
Sun 05 Sep 2021
S1 Ep19: Talking TV, comedy and California with Adrian Poynton
Well, despite somehow failing to record the first 30 minutes of the interview, we still manage to have a rather interesting chat with TV comedy scriptwriter Adrian Poynton about his work and his adve…
00:46:44 |
Sun 29 Aug 2021
S1 Ep18: Whingefest '21
After entering a micro-fiction contest Tom, Jon and Dave rather maturely consider the judge's feedback, and deal with it in a level-headed and sensible fashion. Kind of. Apart from the stupid bits wh…
00:50:23 |
Sun 22 Aug 2021
S1 Ep17: Let's do it LIVE!
Some people thought it couldn't be done... they were wrong. Some said no-one would be daft enough to turn up... they were wrong too!! And some people said we wouldn't be able to create the greatest s…
00:56:54 |
Sun 15 Aug 2021
S1 Ep16: Hidden Tools of Comedy review & Chris Paling interview
It's a half and half treat this week! Half book review ("The Hidden Tools of Comedy" by Steve Kaplan) and half interview - a lovely natter with novelist, and writer of "A Very Nice Rejection Letter",…
00:57:14 |
Sun 08 Aug 2021
S1 Ep15: The Little Pod of Horrors!
Ouhhhhhhh... it's a spooooooky horror episode! This week we present back our short horror stories. Then we try and teach Dave how to give something marks out of ten. (We have no idea if we did a good…
00:55:28 |
Sun 01 Aug 2021
S1 Ep14: "In one eye and out the other" with stand-up poet, Kate Fox
This week we're joined by the superb Kate Fox, poet extraordinaire. Kate shows us around the secret world of poetry, enjoys Dave's catchphrase (I mean, what right thinking individual wouldn't?!) and …
01:12:11 |
Sun 25 Jul 2021
S1 Ep13: A chat with CJ Tudor
This week, we talk to brilliant thriller-mystery-horror writer C.J. Tudor. Topics covered: Dog walking, the 1980s and what it's like when one of the biggest authors in the world decides to say someth…
00:51:28 |
Sun 18 Jul 2021
S1 Ep12: Rejections
This week (as the more astute of you may have gathered from the title of this episode) we talk about rejections – including a surprise for Tom and Jon that Dave has been keeping up his sleeve for ove…
00:45:31 |
Sun 11 Jul 2021
S1 Ep11: I can't believe it's Caimh! (That rhymes by the way!?)
This week we talk to multi-talented writer Caimh McDonnell about hecklers, dogs and successful self publishing. And we witness a huge moment in the history of podcasting; the release of Dave's brand …
00:53:06 |
Sun 04 Jul 2021
S1 Ep10: Logs, trees and beats
What's a log line? How are they useful? How should you do them? These are all questions we really should have considered before recording a podcast about them. But as you'll hear, we get through it o…
01:05:31 |
Sun 27 Jun 2021
S1 Ep9: A nice chat with Beth Chalmers
We thoroughly enjoy a lovely chinwag with Beth Chalmers this week. She's a hugely successful writer with sketch shows, dramas, programmes like Horrible Histories and much, much more to her name. We t…
00:55:08 |
Sun 20 Jun 2021
S1 Ep8: From first pages to review rages
In this week's audio smorgasbord (let's call it a smaudiosbord), inspired by our chat with OMJ Ryan in episode 7, we present back our first pages of our best-selling crime novels and then we have a b…
01:02:23 |
Sun 13 Jun 2021
S1 Ep7: OMG it's OMJ Ryan
This week we talk to crime fiction author OMJ Ryan and we find out the answer to questions like; What happens when you quit your job to become an author? What do you call a competition where you have…
00:51:17 |
Sun 06 Jun 2021
S1 Ep6: Robot Writers
This time out, we talk about our "work in progress" and then touch upon important issues such as houmous on nipples, one of us being a better director than George Lucas and take the challenge to see …
00:53:58 |
Sun 30 May 2021
S1 Ep5: Ideas about ideas!
Due to recent events we’ve had to swap our episodes around a bit. So this week we’re using our experience as advertising creatives to discuss creativity and where ideas come from. Then we take a long…
00:58:59 |
Sun 23 May 2021
S1 Ep4: Aural Sex
Well, here it is. The episode literally no-one has been waiting for. Packed to the brim with smut and naughtiness, with a few rib-ticklers thrown in for your enhanced pleasure. Plus some very high qu…
00:53:52 |
Sun 16 May 2021
S1 Ep3: Erotica's a hard one
This week we have a good old fashioned chin-wag about our ongoing writing projects – including a unique take on the murder mystery genre and a truly amazing idea for a play. Then we seamlessly segue …
01:02:54 |
Sun 09 May 2021
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