Writers Behaving Badly Podcast
Writers Behaving Badly Podcast
Podcast Description
🎙️ A writing podcast that pulls back the curtain on publishing. Lisa Ireland, Brooke Turnbull, and Annie Bucknall mix craft, chaos, and cocktails 🍷 with live mentoring, industry truths 📖, and writing confessions. New episodes every Saturday—because sometimes, it’s good to be bad. 🔥 writersbehavingbadly.substack.com
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as writing craft, publishing industry realities, and humorous literary confessions, with episodes featuring segments like 'Sins & Wins' for sharing writing struggles, 'Roast or Toast' for live manuscript critiques, and 'Tea Time' for sharing embarrassing stories from the writing world.

🎙️ A writing podcast that pulls back the curtain on publishing. Lisa Ireland, Brooke Turnbull, and Annie Bucknall mix craft, chaos, and cocktails 🍷 with live mentoring, industry truths 📖, and writing confessions. New episodes every Saturday—because sometimes, it’s good to be bad. 🔥
This week on Writers Behaving Badly: It’s the season two finale! Annie, Brooke, and Lisa wrap up a year of literary chaos with bread, burnout, and breakthroughs. Lisa digs deep for one final curly question and Brooke delivers the Footballer’s Baby conception scene…(almost)…
Plus: The knitting community comes for Hank Green in a thread war for the ages…
What You’ll Learn:
The difference between a supportive beta reader and a confidence killer
How to give feedback that doesn’t make someone quit writing forever
Why “being kind” isn’t the same as “lying”
Segments Inside:
✍️ Sins & WinsLisa inches closer to ‘the end’ while Brooke and Annie creep further away…
🔥 Roast or ToastBrooke gives us what we’ve asked for…the Footballer’s Baby is finally conceived…
📚 Curly QuestionHow do you find a Beta Reader…but more importantly, how do you give good feedback without crushing a writer’s spirit? Lisa shares her wisdom.
🍵 Tea Time RantHank Green vs. the knitters: when socks are undervalued, and sexism enters the chat. Annie brings the chaos; Brooke tries not to choke on her tea. Are we cancelled? Afraid knot…
Our next Badly Behaved Write-Along is on Tuesday 28th October @ 8:00pm.Come and join us!
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