10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Bbbrrbuummmbbbb....Lift off...fffwwoooooooooshhhhhhh.

This week we launch into a good ole' natter with the brilliant Doug Naylor, co-creator & writer of Red Dwarf.

We talk about his excellent new children's book, and its space-ship based iterations.

We talk more generally about writing children's stories.

We talk about how Doug learned the craft of writing comedy.

We talk about how many times he and Rob pitched Red Dwarf unsuccessfully.

We talk about they went about developing an episode.

We talk about the abortive US version of Red Dwarf

We find out if it's likely there'll be another series of Red Dwarf

and we talk about persistence and 'actually finishing things' (which simultaneously inspires and upsets us.)

All very interesting and useful stuff from an actual real-life legend - we think you'll agree!

Buy his excellent book hither:

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sin-bin-island-the-unmissable-brand-new-adventure-from-red-dwarf-co-creator-and-sunday-times-bestselling-doug-naylor-doug-naylor/7955180?ean=9781788453707

Binge Red Dwarf here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b008ncn6/red-dwarf

aaaand probably don't watch this TOTP version of The Chicken Song, unless you want to spend the entire evening (and an entire sleepless night) with it rolling around and around in your head. (Yes. That happened.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OiZNGYmvg8

Also... you'll be wanting a link to Scrivener, won't you? So that you can get 20% off their popular and amazing writing software?

Well you can do that here: by using the code: failing

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/

I know. We're very very good to you.

But hey, you deserve it, for being discerning enough to listen to The Failing Writers Podcast.

Well that just about wraps it up... other than to say: check out Hype Writer this week and the talented Solomon Atkinson-Padmore

This is his website... there's all kinds of goodies here so don't forget to check it out:

https://artofsolomon.com/

Thanks for listening, and being part of our little community!

See ya next time.

Jon & Tom.

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