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If you’re a writer, you’re probably no stranger to creative blocks, those days when nothing about your craft feels quite right.

Instead of telling stories, you’re playing word Tetris with the same five paragraphs and ducking away to make yet another absolutely vital cup of tea, desperately hoping you’ll stop feeling so stuck.

Sometimes, the block goes deeper than a passing frustration — and the longer it sticks around, the more impossible it feels to overcome.

But you don't have to make huge, complicated changes to access creative flow in your life. Small shifts can make deep transformations. And that means you can start right now.

The Inspirited Word is a monthly podcast for writers ready to stop second-guessing their storytelling and ready to start breathing life and spirit back into their craft.

Join us as we rediscover the radical magic in our stories... and actually get those powerful stories on the page.

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11. Telling the story that breathes

This month, explore how changing our attention can lead to a deeper relationship with our stories – so we can write as living, breathing, imagining storytellers, not as our own worst critics.

10. Freedom with form (Or, story structure for optimists)

How can shifting our understanding of structure shift our deepest creative blocks?

9. Hearth and horizon: Finding creative center

A true center is also a threshold – a place where if you know the right tricks, the sacred can be smuggled through the seams. This month, we’re telling stories with the trickster.

8. When the wound becomes the work

You’ve probably heard this bit of common wisdom before: “You only grow when things are hard.” But what stories do we miss when the wound becomes the whole of the work?

7. Valuing your creative vision

If you’re looking for more satisfaction and growth (and even success) in your creative life, it may be time for a new framework: Write toward your values, not your goals.

6. When creative flow meets creative dogma

In your writing practices, you may be chasing creative flow. But your flow state has a sneaky cousin: dogmatic trance. Tune in to start spotting the dogma hiding within your flow (so you can kick it out!).