The Failing Writers Podcast

S4 Ep7: Robert Popper

If comedy writing is your thing, we've got a real treat for you. This week we talk to the super...

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• 9 días

S4 Ep6: Improv Your Writing - with Ruth Bratt

The great Carl Reiner once said “Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience”.  So...

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• 16 días

S4 Ep5: The Interview That Went A Bit Wrong

Unfortunately we're not able to include show notes this week, for legal reasons. Thanks for...

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• 23 días

S4 Ep4: Writers Unite! with Sarah from Writers' HQ & Debut Novelist Samuel Burr

Writing can be a solitary business. All those hours spent with nothing but a blank page and a...

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S4 Ep3: The Full Brontë

Join Tom & Jon on another rambly exploration. This time we're off back to the 1840s to take a...

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S4 Ep2: Jessica Bull - Miss Austen Investigates

As an aspiring young writer it's easy to be put off by even the most well intentioned...

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S4 Ep1: Danny Wallace

Aaaaaand we're back! The Failing Writers return for what some are calling the fourth season of...

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S3 Ep27: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas (pt2)

Happy New Year Folks!  We continue our seasonal ghost stories with a handful of listener-written...

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• 4 meses

S3 Ep26: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas (pt1)

Please accept this as a most cordial invitation to accompany Jon, Tom and as yet unnamed guests...

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• 4 meses

S3 Ep25: Alec Worley: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Horror & Comics.

Alec Worley is an award-lacking author from South London. He writes comics, fiction and audio...

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• 4 meses

S3 Ep24: Word Games: The League of the Lexicon

Out of the blue, someone sent us a game. A game all about words and etymology and language - the...

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S3 Ep23: The Runners Up

We couldn't let the amazing stories that made it to the final short-list go un-read and...

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S3 Ep22: Nanowrimo Special: How NOT to write a novel with Howard Mittelmark

NaNoWrimOhNo!  It's that time of year again when words-per-day becomes the currency.  So we...

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• 5 meses

S3 Ep21: Writing Ghost Stories: with Stephen Volk & Ciaran O'Keeffe

With the help of two expert spookologists: Stephen Volk - horror writer & mastermind behind the...

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• 6 meses

S3 Ep20: How to write a book using ChatGPT - Andy Stanton

Well... there's a lot of talk about whether it's right or wrong to use AI to write your book for...

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• 6 meses

S3 Ep19: 2023 Flash Fiction Competition Winners!

AND THE WINNER IS......... announced in the podcast. Plus the runners up and some highly...

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S3 Ep18: The Bookshop Episode

October 14th is BOOKSHOP DAY!  So here's a little episode... well... it started out as a little...

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S3 Ep17: A Simon Armitage, Stanza Stone Special. For National Poetry Day 2023

This week we're out and about tracking down poetry for National Poetry Day 2023. We take to the...

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S3 Ep16: Oliver Mol - Train Lord

Imagine being a writer and not actually writing! Oh wait.  That's us. Imagine being a writer...

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• 7 meses

S3 Ep15: Emma Healey

Hello again. This time out we're having a nice sit down with author Emma Healey. Her debut...

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• 7 meses