What if you could turn your passion into prose? Your hobby into a hardback? Your obsession into an opus? That's what our guests in this episode have done! What started off as a hobby turned into an opportunity.
Our first guest, Rob Potts, started travelling to different football matches with his son. Before long he was travelling across Europe and around the world, creating more that just a travel guide - but a social commentary documenting people's lives, and the role football plays in their very souls.
Then we talk to Jo Moseley. After managing to survive everything life throws at you by mid-life, Jo found a fresh start in the pastime of paddle-boarding. And with it came the opportunity she'd always been waiting for. But how easy was it to grasp it?
Two great chats, with two very interesting folk.
And then to top the episode off, we've got another Hypewriter. Our feature where we feature writing from a listener that they want to feature. So if you've got something you fancy featuring on our feature (1000 words or under of a novel, poetry, flash, a particularly great postcard you wrote once) share it with us at failingwriterspodcast@gmail.com, and you could be featured on our next Hypewriter!
Here's where you can find the stuff from the episode on the internets...
Check out Rob Potts' Insta here - and get a hold of his groundhopping book, A Football Oydessy here
Find out more about Jo's adventures here
And, if you fancy reading more about our Hypewriter star, Lesley Bungay, this week? Well, click here to do just that. Maybe get yourself a copy of her debut novel, A Year Without Summer.
Finally - just to say thank you once again to everyone who's been kind enough to send a small donation our way. We absoutely don't expect it from our listeners - but we massively appreciate it when it does happen, and it really does help us to continue with the podcast. So THANK YOU!! (If you want to "buy us a coffee", you can do so here)
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