Episodes
21: 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 a…
20: 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 m…
19: 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 …
18: 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 lev…
17: 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 t…
16: 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 love…
15: 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…
14: "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'…
13: A chat with Tudor
This week, we talk to brilliant thriller-mystery-horror writer C.J. Tudor. Topics covered: Dog walking, the 1980s and what it's l…
12: Rejections
This week (as the more astute of you may have gathered from the title of this episode) we talk about rejections – including a sur…
11: 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 …
10: 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 r…
9: 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, pr…
8: 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…
7: OMG it's OMJ
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 …
6: 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 be…
5: 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 creative…
4: 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…
3: 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 myster…
2: Teenangstasaurus
This episode sees us bravely digging out our embarrassing teenage poetry and sharing it shamelessly with the world. We talk about…
1: There's No Hope
In our first ever episode we have a chat about why we started the podcast, we talk about those little things that prevent us from…
Episode 0 - Introducing failure
Tom, Jon and Dave welcome you to the Failing Writers Podcast. Come on a journey of self-development with us as we attempt to tran…