Working Drafts: A Writing Podcast

About Working Drafts: A Writing Podcast

There’s no one “right” way to write. All writers have our go-to moves as well as the things that just don’t work for us the way they do for others. And what works today isn’t guaranteed to work tomorrow. But most of us do have something we carry from project to project. This is a show about those somethings, as novelists Ted Fox (SCHOOLED, DATE WEEK) and Lindsay Lewis (IT’S A BUSINESS DOING PLEASURE WITH YOU) talk with other writers about the craft of writing through the lens of a specific question: What’s your best writing tip? *Note: From May 2023 to January 2026, this podcast was called Working Drafts.

Publisher

Ted Fox

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 May 2023

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

44 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Hallie Shepherd on Protecting Your Love of Reading

   Ted and Lindsay are joined by Hallie Shepherd, who has worked in the film industry as a screenwriter, producer, and actress, all the while knowing she would eventually return to her first love: novels. Her debut, Call Off the Dark, published by William Morrow/HarperCollins last month, is a true genre blend, with atmospheric thriller, love story, and psychological drama elements. After telling us about the book and the art of meting out twists, Hallie shares two writing tips—first, her system ...

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Fanning Out: O Canad(ian Movies)

   This is a podcast explicitly about the craft of writing—except when it’s not. For these “Fanning Out” bonus episodes, Ted is joined by his videographer pal Matthew Simmons not to talk about things they’ve made but rather to revel in the work of others and what it can teach us. Like the show’s regular episodes, it’s a celebration of human creativity (or something that sounds 32 percent less corny). Here, they’re just doing it from the perspective of fans, and they’re going beyond books and wri...

3. 

   15 Sept 2026

   Carol Davis on Waking Up with Poems

   Ted and Lindsay are joined by Carol Davis, whose novel, Restoration—which Dave Eggers has called “intimate, vivid, and deeply felt”—will be published by Rise Books later this month. A writer, researcher, and archivist, she tells us about the book, a literary novel that is also her debut, and how it grew out of a short story about a mother and daughter arguing with each other that Carol wrote a number of years ago. She then shares her best writing tip, a way to start your writing day away fro...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 15 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

6

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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