Hosted by Mary Lanham · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 30 episodes
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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.
Mary Lanham hosts the Inspirited Word, a arts show with 30 episodes published.
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 thos
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, actually). These
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 what d
This month on the pod, I’m going to be giving you a little creative pep talk about two things: Why your consistent creativity matters, even if you’re not publicly prolificA practical way to reach the level of consistency
This month, something very strange happened. I found myself researching a biz-bro productivity hack for writers... and actually wanting to try it. How did this come to pass? In these manically trying times, it’s been fee
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 of ch
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 to
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: Your characters are your ancestors. This idea unlocks all s
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, still-forming g
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.) This month I’m sharing a writerly angle
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 play
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 realm
(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…) We’re all way too familiar with the idea that emotional suffering
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, writing e
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, primed by
You’ve probably heard this core and celebrated advice for a successful writing life: Write every dayFinish as many projects as possibleNo exceptions And maybe, like me, you’ve also heard this extremely well-adjusted and
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 thi
’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 anti-consu
The typical ways writers study and practice storytelling often encourage us to conflate “paying attention” to our craft with catching errors or imperfections. We try to pay our best, most granular attention to the words
When writers talk about story structure, we tend to conceptualize it in one of two ways: As a set of almost mechanical instructions on how to put a story together “correctly”As an organic, intuitive outgrowth of the them
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