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I’m Mary, the writer and editor behind this space, and I’m so glad you’re here. (More about me at the end of this page.)
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As a special welcome to the newsletter circle, I’ve collected a few additional links of exclusive content for you to explore.
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Creative Rescue Kit 🙌
This set of three bite-sized but powerful tools is designed to help anxious writers (like myself) get out of the drafting doom spiral and back onto the path of actually crafting your stories.
Here’s what’s inside...
- a quick and gentle guided audio practice to break through doom blocks during writing sessions
- low-pressure but deep-diving journal prompts to cut past overwhelm and shift your creative anxiety at the source
- a streamlined Notion tracker to spot patterns in your writing life and discover which practices really increase your creative flow and fulfillment
Popular pod episodes 🎧
These selected episodes will give you a slice of what the Inspirited Word podcast is all about, plus a taste of past creative practice tips.
All past episodes and tips are available here.
- Episode 1. Your stories are alive
What does it look like to approach storytelling as a living, transformative relationship? And what might be possible if you did?
(PSA: This inaugural episode is a flashback to me getting to know my microphone; the sound quality is totally serviceable, but occasionally I do fall into a cave.) - Episode 14. Practice vs praxis
In this episode, I get honest about “failing” the classic writing life advice — and share four key threads of much better advice I’m following instead. - Episode 26. Creating more meaning, more often
How can you escape the productivity ethos but still create more meaningful work (i.e., make stuff with deep meaning, and also make that kind of stuff more often)? - Episode 9. Hearth and horizon: Finding creative center
How do we find our creative center, and how do we actually stay in it while we’re working? This episode explores two core mythic archetypes that can guide us on the path.
Let’s connect 🧵
Before I let you go for now, here’s a bit more about me.
I’m Mary Lanham, an editor and coach committed to helping queer, nonbinary, and femme writers fully access their deep creative vision.
I started the Inspirited Word pod as a space to live into what it means to write as if our stories are truly powerful and truly alive... not just a set of anxiety- or shame-inducing goals to meet and skillsets to master.
If you’ve read this far, I’d love for you to reach out and introduce yourself (really). Connecting with listeners and fellow writers helps me create future episodes and resources to support your most inspirited work.
What’s your biggest current goal for your writing life – not just what you want to write, but how you want it to feel? Let me know here.
Thanks again for joining this circle. And as always, keep well, keep writing, and I’ll see you in the next episode of the Inspirited Word!