Writers Behaving Badly
Writers Behaving Badly Podcast
✍️What a Writing Coach’s First Draft Really Looks Like
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✍️What a Writing Coach’s First Draft Really Looks Like

Plus: Lost Words, new Substacks and Rachael Johns spills the tea
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This week on Writers Behaving Badly: It’s the final episode of Season One—and the chaos is at an all-time high. Annie starts another Substack (yes, really), Brooke loses 6.5K words to Microsoft Word and lives to tell the tale, and Lisa finally lets us roast her words. Oh, and romance royalty Rachael Johns drops in with a publishing story so cringe you’ll feel it in your bones. We’re ending things with a bang!


What You'll Learn:

  • How to recover from a brutal writing loss (and still call it a win)

  • Why slow progress is still progress—and how to protect your creative time

  • What makes a first page sizzle (even when it’s your mentor’s!)

  • How not to handle rejection from a major publisher


Segments Inside:

✍️ Sins & Wins
Grief-writing breakthroughs, voice-finding victories, and a rewrite redemption arc.

🔥 Roast or Toast
The tables turn! Brooke and Annie roast Lisa’s opening chapter with terrifying glee—until they realise her “bad words” are better than their polished ones. Expect drama, emotion, and minor existential spirals.

🍵 Tea Time Rant
Listener exclusive:

shares the ultimate “behaving badly” moment—from the querying trenches to an accidental email gaffe. It's mortifying. It's glorious. It’s why we love her.

Listen to the season finale now—and stay tuned for our bonus uncut episode with Rachael Johns, landing in two weeks.


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