Write For Your Life

Iain and Donna return from holiday to talk about the email Amazon sent to its KDP authors, some tips on how to approach the revision process, and a little about the death of the gr...

Iain and Donna talk about having more than one string to your writing bow, services Video Scribe and Voice Bunny, then a lot about feedback, making money as a writer and classic au...

This week it's all about Donna's finger, the Man Booker Prize 2014 longlist, the trailer for the 50 Shades of Grey Film, the process of planning and creating characters, and the re...

Topics this week include planning your writing, putting your words under pressure, JK Rowling's 'Potter Plotter', Overcast and how to listen to podcasts, and finally a look at why ...

Iain and Donna talk about the recent press coverage of author earning, including how authors might need to think outside the box to fund their work. They also look at the real-life...

Iain and Donna talk about Wattpad, rejections and how many agents to submit to at a time, whether a career in writing now is more tricky to come by than it was 15 years ago (it is)...

Iain talks about his time at the Coventry Book Awards; quantifying your data and writing 400k words in a year; different types of criticism and how to handle it; one journalist's e...

The just-announced Amazon Fire phone launched from the Amazon Deathstar; the new American poet laureate and the idea of 'representing' your genre; self-deprecation, confidence and ...

James Franco's short story; a new web-to-print service called Paper Later; Iain's new fictional podcast project and the screenwriting apps he's using; book endings, including how i...

Iain and Donna talk about the great Amazon-Hachette battle and the former's grip on the book world, Eimear McBride's stunning achievement in picking up the Baileys Women's Prize fo...

The selfie that made the national news (in Denmark), great writing epiphanies, treating creative writing like a job, performing your work off by heart, poetry podcasts, and the lit...

Iain and Donna talk about selfies, Jedward, social book-selling, crowdfunding, book launches, and knowing what type and genre of book to write....