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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episodes (154)

Dec 22, 2025 S5 Ep24: Doug Johnstone
Dec 15, 2025 S5 Ep23: The Scottish Literary Legends
Dec 1, 2025 S5 Ep22: Michael Pederson

The Failing Writers Podcast

Dec 22, 2025
54½ minutes
49 MB

How do you give your readers everything they're looking for? And your agent? You have to feed the beast don't you? (Is calling agents 'The Beast' too offensive?) It's your job as a writer to offer up precisely what your readership is looking for. Anything else and you risk losing your commercial edge. And we can't have that can we? Oh we can? Oh... OK. We met up with the wonderful Doug Johnstone, to hear how he refuses to be pigeoned-holed, writes what he...

The Failing Writers Podcast

S5 Ep24: Doug Johnstone

The Failing Writers Podcast

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