Write For Your Life

Iain recently spoke to a bunch of design students about social media and the opportunities it brings when you’re looking to build a career. He was surprised by how few of them were...

It’s easy to think that when you have a good idea for a piece of writing, that’s your job done. But most great pieces of work have two ideas. In this episode of the podcast I talk ...

Sometimes you just want to dictate an awesome idea, sometimes you want to publish your thoughts to the world. Dropvox and Audioboo provide two excellent ways of doing those very th...

Iain talks about what it takes to get a writing job. Basically, professional experience and good qualifications are fine, but it’s what you do outside of those things that will cat...

A few thoughts on productivity for you. If you feel like you’re always losing time, it’s probably not hours or days, it’s the minutes you spend on unnecessary tasks. It’s your medd...

Iain talks about a new approach to the podcast. He also covers the terrible act of using a double space following a full stop. Imagine....

Iain is joined by Myke Hurley, who records several times a week for his own various podcasting ventures. Together, they talk about the benefits of starting your own podcast and, mo...

Iain is joined by Tom Evans from The Bookwright. Tom is an author’s mentor who specialises in helping writers think clearly and unblock their blockages. They covered all sorts of s...

Iain is joined by Joe Rose, musician, singer and the songwriter behind the marvellous, Native and the Name. They talk about writing songs and how the process has some similarities ...

This week Iain is joined by Robert Mills, studio manager and copywriter at Bluegg, a design agency in Newport, South Wales. They talk about writing to a set structure, which is han...

In what will be Manuela’s last podcast for a while, she discusses with Iain the big seven-week book debate prompted by his post on the subject earlier this week. The good news is t...

Iain chats with Manuela Boyle about why we write and what motivates people to start scribbling. The conversation heads into a discussion about self-publishing, and Iain isn't sure ...