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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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17. Dead, mad, or a poet (Or, how to be less tortured)
If we don’t want to be the tortured poet… we don’t have to be. Tune in to discover what the lineage of the inspired poet can offer us instead.
16. When to let a story go
Three key questions to help you discern the path forward when the writing gets tough (and what to do when it really is time to let a project go).
15. Reclaiming your creative calling
Explore what makes vocation such a powerful idea for creatives, and how reclaiming it might shape your writing.
14. Practice vs praxis (Or, getting the real work done)
This month, I get honest about "failing" the classic writing life advice - and share four key threads of much better advice I'm following instead.
13. So... what is visionary storytelling, anyway?
Discover what becomes possible when you define true vision for yourself and your stories.
12. The creative gift of darkness
Embracing the mystery of the gift can tap you into a creative flow that replenishes you, and helps you boldly and generously share your own gifts with the world.
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!).
