Write For Your Life

This week Iain and Donna talk about abandoning your muse, the importance of typography when reading and writing, how to handle insecurity as a writer, a new novel writing app calle...

This week Iain and Donna talk about writing and wellness, how to get on to an MA or MFA writing programme, and whether NaNoWriMo is a good thing, bad thing or neither here nor ther...

Donna and Iain tackle the fine art of dealing with negative reviews online, consider the astonishing number of books published in the UK every hour, and whether or not writing is a...

Iain and Donna talk about the former's return to YouTube, the Booker prize winner 2014, a sort of defence of Amazon, how to perform your fiction, and what a role an author plays in...

Donna is back to talk about some exciting news; more on fictional animals; meeting other writers; censorship, politics and books as life teachers; royalties and discounts; what to ...

Iain is joined by Sanne Vliegenthart to talk about Youtube and the marvellous Booktube community, working in publishing, favourite fictional dogs and a new episodic e-reading platf...

This week Iain is joined by Write for Your Life stalwart Manuela Boyle to discuss feeling obliged to blog, Hilary Mantel and the fuss over her story about Margaret Thatcher,measuri...

This week, Iain and Donna talk about whether you hear characters' voices in your head when you read and write, how to balance light and dark when your book is rather on the sad sid...

Iain and Donna talk about sliding doors moments as a writer, Super Thursday when all the books in the UK are published, remembering to write for your own special group of readers, ...

Iain and Donna talk about Amazon's newly launched Kids' Book Creator; picking names for characters; Eleanor Catton's grant for writers to read; and just how useful are writers' not...

An action-packed episode that covers Roald Dahl, children's fiction and how much is too much, too young; choosing cliche-free titles; being addicted to our phones and tackling writ...

Iain and Donna talk about Hanx Writer, the new writing app co-launched by Tom Hanks, why teenage girls love Wattpad, Facebook the destroyer, and then much more about the literary t...