Everyone fails. No one fails forever. There are many ways to negotiate the gap between, in the arts and in academia. The Word Docs have risen through the ranks themselves, and now devote a large proportion of their life to helping others do the same. As teachers, mentors, positive role models, and occasional drinking buddies, Amy, Alex and Sean are here for you.

Episode 11 - tags

Accidental success

Blackface

Carpe Diem

Commercial flops

Computer crashes

Consultation

Covers

Cruelty to animals

Curses

Drafts

Editors

Fail better

Hindsight

Hubris

Ideal reader

Inertia

Jealousy

KPIs

Laziness

Log lines

Luck

Manuscript assessments

Marketing

Miscasting

Misjudgement

Misrepresentation

Numbers game

One-pagers

Opportunities

Owls

Playing Dice

Preparedness

Process

Public embarrassment

Regret

Sales figures

Self-failure

Selling out

Submissions

Teaching

Timing

Unpublished books

Vicissitudes

Whitewashing

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