The Inspirited Word is the monthly podcast for writers ready to stop second-guessing their storytelling and ready to start breathing life, spirit, and deep magic back into their craft. We’ll explore ways to enliven the technical mechanics of our writing with the full visionary potential of our imaginations—so we can uncover our most potent, most necessary work. Join us as we rediscover the radical, transformative power in our stories... and actually get those powerful stories on the page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Inspirited Word is the monthly podcast for writers ready to stop second-guessing their storytelling and ready to start breathing life, spirit, and deep magic back into their craft. We’ll explore ways to enliven the technical mechanics of our writing with the full visionary potential of our imaginations, so we can uncover our most potent, most necessary work.
the Inspirited Word is hosted by Mary Lanham. The show has published 30 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "29. To be silent (Or, turning creative enemies into allies)" (25 July 2025, 27 minutes), "28. Dreaming big (Or, writing what’s holy)" (30 May 2025, 19 minutes), and "27. Crafting a creative life with the Witches’ Pyramid" (28 April 2025, 28 minutes).
the Inspirited Word publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 30 episodes.
Booking probability for the Inspirited Word is 21%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. the Inspirited Word requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. the Inspirited Word's contact route on record: verified email.
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Mary Lanham hosts the Inspirited Word, an arts podcast with 30 episodes published.
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<p>Writers tend to have a mixed relationship with silence (either literal or more internal). On the one hand, we sometimes crave more of it, as a way to make space for the words we’re trying to coax onto the page. When...
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<p>This month on the pod, I’m going to be doing something that is sometimes considered obnoxiously gauche and self-obsessed—I’m going to tell you about a totally weird dream I had (two totally weird dreams...
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<p>If you were around for last month’s episode, you may have caught this little line toward the end: “You want to practice your craft consistently as an ethic, not a metric.” And maybe you thought, “Okay, sure... but...
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<p>This month on the pod, I’m going to be giving you a little creative pep talk about two things:</p>Why your consistent creativity matters, even if you’re not publicly prolificA practical way to reach the level of...
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<p>This month, something very strange happened. I found myself researching a biz-bro productivity hack for writers... and actually wanting to try it.</p><p>How did this come to pass? In these manically trying times...
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<p>It's January! And regardless of how you feel about the whole “new year, new you” vibe, January is the ultimate case study of goal-setting in the wider cultural zeitgeist. Maybe you’ve tried the often-hyped approach...
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<p>I allude pretty clearly to my political leanings on the podcast, but I don’t generally structure entire episodes around specific political issues. And I do like for this to be a kind of quiet space where you can come...
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<p>This month, sort of in honor of Halloween and sort of just because, I want to share and explore a single phrase about writing that has been inspiring me lately:</p><p>Your characters are your ancestors.</p><p>This...
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<p>Today’s pod is coming to you from the messy middle of something I’ve been mulling over for a long time. Something I don’t have a tagline for yet, but that still feels worth sharing, in all its in-process...
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<p>Today’s episode is for any writer who’s found themselves focused more on chasing the perfect creative practice than actually having a creative practice. (So, it’s for most of us.)</p><p>This month I’m sharing a...
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<p>This pod is usually focused on our personal relationships to our writing, and ways to rediscover and strengthen that alchemical creative connection. But this month, I’ve been thinking about the role other people can...
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<p>As a rule of thumb on this podcast, I try to keep things generally positive, since most of us have enough negativity in our creative lives. This month, though, I’m inviting you to take a little trip with me to the...
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<p>(First things first: Thank you to thank Taylor Swift for releasing The Tortured Poets Department last month and thus making this episode kind of topical…)</p><p>We’re all way too familiar with the idea that emotional...
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<p>It’s pretty much objectively true that finishing stories is an excellent way to get better at finishing stories. This is true on both a practical level and a skills level — in addition to requiring persistence...
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<p>Ever found yourself lying awake very late at night or very early in the morning wondering if you've missed your calling in life? I'm guessing most writers will be in the yes camp; we tend to be sensitive souls...
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<p>You’ve probably heard this core and celebrated advice for a successful writing life:</p>Write every dayFinish as many projects as possibleNo exceptions<p>And maybe, like me, you’ve also heard this extremely...
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<p>There’s a popular New Year meme about picking words to act as guideposts for the year. And in this first month of 2024, I’ve found myself reflecting on two sort of abstract terms I use to describe what I’m up to with...
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<p>’Tis the season of wintertide celebrations, including the ritual of gift exchange... no matter how commercialized and un-ritualized that exchange might have become. But I promise this month’s episode is not an...
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<p>The typical ways writers study and practice storytelling often encourage us to conflate “paying attention” to our craft with catching errors or imperfections.</p><p>We try to pay our best, most granular attention to...
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<p>When writers talk about story structure, we tend to conceptualize it in one of two ways:</p>As a set of almost mechanical instructions on how to put a story together “correctly”As an organic, intuitive outgrowth of...
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