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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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.
Maps? What's that got to do with writing?
Men? How are they relevant in 2025? Oh no… wait … Er.
OK... let me explain what’s going on today... by introducing you
to (another) 2 handsome and charismatic young men.
Jay Foreman – comedian, singer songwriter (bloody great songs-look em up!) & Map-enthusiast.
And Mark Cooper-Jones – Ex-geography teacher, producer & comedian. Both… now… primarily You-Tubers. (Ha! because that’s a real job.)
Together, they are… Map Men. An absolutely genius bit of infotainment, which I’m willing to bet my last rolo, that you will love:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfxy4_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC_QCp
Tell me I’m wrong! I dare you!
But, right… and here’s the important bit…. they’ve written a book! A brilliant book, which like their show is both brain-engorging and extremely funny.
Here’s a link to purchase several copies for yourself, your family & friends:
And while we’re on the subject of books. Have you ever tried writing one?
It’s bloody difficult isn’t it?
Yeah. Seriously. Who knew?
So may I be so bold as to recommend that you try using Scrivener. It has more features than you’ll ever need! However that does mean that if you do need one, Scrivener has got it!
It just makes writing easier. Not just for books either, but also for plays and screenplays and radio plays and non-fiction and stuff.
PLUS – if you go to https://www.literatureandlatte.com/store/scrivener
You can make 20% of the price of Scrivener completely disappear by using the magic word “failing” at checkout. (You could even simultaneously imagine that you’re a flamboyant 80s stage magician with a white tiger and an open collared shirt while you do it, if that’s the kind of thing you enjoy doing.)
And then – our HYPEWRITER feature! Where you send us something you’ve written that you’re proud of and then we go and celebrate the living babaganoosh out of it.
(If you’d like to join in, just send a bit of writing - roughly 5 – 8 mins-worth - to failingwriterspodcast@gmail.com – explain what it is, why you wrote it and a bit about yourself and you could feature on the pod!)
This week we introduce the extraordinarily talented Aaron J Courts, who sent us a lovely piece called Pass & Review.
You can find out more about Aaron here:
https://aaroncourts.substack.com
And behold. The shownotes are done for another episode.
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