The Failing Writers Podcast

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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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S1 Ep12: Rejections

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07/11/21 • 45 min

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 over a decade! Plus there's an exciting announcement about our first live show. Enjoy!
Music by Dano Songs

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S1 Ep6: Robot Writers

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05/30/21 • 53 min

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 if we can tell the difference between things written by us or by a super smart AI computer. Thanks for listening.
Links from the show...
Make your own pretend person. Maybe print it out and frame it, pop it on your desk and pretend you've got a friend!
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
Music by Dano Songs

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S3 Ep2: Stuart Turton

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04/17/23 • 73 min

Hello again! This week we're having a chat with Stuart Turton, author of "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" and "The Devil and the Dark Water". We also try to give some worthwhile feedback on work that one of our listeners has kindly sent in to us.

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S4 Ep23 Resuscitating The Subject of English (pt2)

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12/09/24 • 63 min

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 powerful army of activists, who are going to help bring about a U-turn in reading and writing!

Let's start today - let's put away the smartphones - let's read more - let's volunteer as a paired-reader at a school. Let's big-up teachers - let's write something and share it with the world - let's write letters to the government until they change the way English is taught, and the way the arts are viewed in schools.

Thanks for listening, and if you want to know more about the stuff we've been discussing, or have any other suggestions about how we might give English in schools a boost - drop us a line!

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S2 Ep1: We're back! Welcome to Season 2

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04/03/22 • 48 min

Big ideas, rude t-shirt slogans, misplaced confidence and our infallible master-plan – The Failing Writers return for season 2 of their potentially award winning podcast.

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S2 Ep31: Finally... we pitch Poker Night

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04/03/23 • 62 min

Are you ready for a BRAND NEW SEASON of the Failing Writers Podcast? Of course you are!! Well... you'll need to wait a bit longer. We've got to finish the end of Season 2 first. We promised that we would write a sitcom and pitch it to a TV big-wig, and (rather surprisingly) that's exactly what we've done. Enjoy!!

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S2: Here we go again!

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03/23/22 • 10 min

So, we're back! And this time we're having a BIG idea. (Hopefully. At some point. Maybe. If we get round to it).

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S1 Ep17: Let's do it LIVE!

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08/15/21 • 56 min

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 story EVER with nothing more than our wits and a willing audience. They were mostly possibly right, but it didn't stop us having a right old load of fun trying. Enjoy!!
Music by Dan-o Songs

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S4 Ep27 A Stroll Down Memory Lane

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01/06/25 • 65 min

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 this lovely little writing / podcasting project.

Because for some inexplicable reason, we've decided to take our first ever episode and provide a kind of 'director's commentary' over it.

There will be cringing. There will be self-reflection. There might even be the odd moment of pride - as we look back at just how far we've come.

Well... alright... admittedly, from the outside it doesn't look like we've come very far, does it?

But the journey is long my friends, and the road is badly paved, and we're all easily distracted by all the fascinating little distractions along the way, aren't we?

So try not to judge too hard.

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S4 Ep6: Improv Your Writing - with Ruth Bratt

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04/08/24 • 47 min

The great Carl Reiner once said “Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience”.
So we figured if we could brush up on our improv skills it's bound to make us better writers... right?
This week improv extraordinaire, and official Comedy Store Player, Ruth Bratt talks to us about her life, her craft and the eating habits of her cat... before putting us to the test with our own improvised play. What could possibly go wrong?
Go and see Ruth with the legendary Comedy Store Players here:
https://comedystoreplayers.com
Get your ticket for Showstopper! The Improvised Musical here:
https://showstopperthemusical.com

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How many episodes does The Failing Writers Podcast have?

The Failing Writers Podcast currently has 134 episodes available.

What topics does The Failing Writers Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Writing, Novel Writing, Book Podcast, Podcasts, Books, Self-Improvement, Education, Arts and Book Writing.

What is the most popular episode on The Failing Writers Podcast?

The episode title 'S1 Ep12: Rejections' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Failing Writers Podcast?

The average episode length on The Failing Writers Podcast is 60 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Failing Writers Podcast released?

Episodes of The Failing Writers Podcast are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of The Failing Writers Podcast?

The first episode of The Failing Writers Podcast was released on Apr 26, 2021.

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