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Lani Diane Rich
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Not on the socials anymore, but I miss you! Come find me here:
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#Boulder #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Ha! I saw you there! Loved the sign!
June 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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So, what did you do today?
June 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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A photograph of an airplane flying through a clear blue sky. White text is overlaid on the image, reading: 'They say this is not an airport, and you don’t have to announce your departure... but I’m a writer, and I love a dramatic exit. So, here’s mine: I’m blowing this popsicle stand. If you want to receive personal letters from me, along with writing advice and general thoughtful shit, you can sign up for my newsletter at lanidianerich.com. Hope to see you there.
January 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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This is a story about how a random comment from a 12-year-old changed me forever as a writer.

#amwriting #fictionwriting

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A white index card clipped with a wooden clothespin features handwritten text that reads, “How a random comment from a 12-year-old changed me forever as a writer.” The card is placed on a bright blue background with white flowers nearby. The bottom of the image includes the text “YearOfWritingMagically.com” written in a playful style.
December 17, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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Historical. Romantic. French. Two struggling women, separated by time but connected through letters. Available December 10! Pre-order through Bookshop.org! #booksky

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The Champagne Letters by Kate MacIntosh with a bottle of champagne and some glasses
December 3, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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If you haven't been able to write your novel, it may not be about the book.

It might be about your fears, your belief that you're lazy, that it's time and not energy that's holding you back.

All of those things are changeable.

You can change them.

#writers #writing

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November 28, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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If you haven't been able to write your novel, it may not be about the book.

It might be about your fears, your belief that you're lazy, that it's time and not energy that's holding you back.

All of those things are changeable.

You can change them.

#WriterThreads

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November 22, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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The Year of Writing Magically is based in writing community, and it makes such a difference to have a group of people writing alongside you... including me, a multi-published, NYT bestselling author who is not just leading the workshop, but taking it as well.

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#writing
November 18, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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The Year of Writing Magically made writing so much easier for me, because it's based in community, and designed to focus on you as a writer, so you can focus on your story.

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#writing #amwriting #writingcommunity
November 18, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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So many writers come to the Year of Writing Magically worried that they're not good enough.

They always are.

So are you.

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#writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #WriterThreads
November 16, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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Sometimes it's more fun to have written than to do the writing.

That's okay.

The version of you that exists one year from now will be really glad you took the chance and signed up for a year of magical writing.

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#writing #amwriting #writingcommunity
November 16, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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If you haven't been able to write your novel, it may not be about the book.

It might be about your fears, your belief that you're lazy, that it's time and not energy that's holding you back.

All of those things are changeable.

You can change them.

#writers #writing

https://buff.ly/4hJArPI
November 13, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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"Look, the whole point of this thing is not to tell you how to do your thing, but to show you how your thing needs to be your North Star on this adventure."

#writingtips #writingadvice #amwriting

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blurred background image with the text: Look, the whole point of this thing is not to tell you how to do your thing, but to show you how your thing needs to be your North Star on this adventure. You need to build your writing practice around you, and that means honoring who you are and how you write. running of the WIPs dot substack dot com
July 26, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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It’s Community Week at the Running of the WIPs, and we’re going to learn about how the actual magic that is community can significantly reduce the friction in your writing process.

#writingtips #writingadvice #amwriting

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Blurred image with text: "The Running of the WIPs is an encouraging space; literally, we give each other courage. We encourage each other to be creative, to have fun, to write our stories. That’s the tone here. We are lifting each other up, and being lifted up in return." --Lani Diane Rich, running of the wips dot substack dot com
July 1, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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What does the voice inside telling you you’re not good enough have to do with healing from trauma?

A lot. Actually.

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Blurred image with text: "Because believe it or not, the day you stop telling yourself you’re just being lazy is the same day you, your work, and your productivity get so much better." --Lani Diane Rich, running of the wips dot substack dot com
June 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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You may think your biggest challenge as a writer is plotting, or procrastination, or innate talent.

It’s not.

Your biggest challeng is how you talk to yourself.

#writingtips #writingadvice #amwriting

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Blurred image with text: "Writer culture is steeped in Quit your whining and write. It tells you that writer’s block isn’t real, you’re just a lazy good-for-nothing, and you should stop even trying. You’re mediocre at best, anyway.The subtext there being, Slink away if you can’t take it; no one will miss you. And this is why I start every workshop with mindset work." --Lani Diane Rich, running of the wips dot substack dot com
June 27, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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If you’re a writer, there is one part of being a writer that often gets ignored, and it’s the mindset with which we approach our writing.

Change that, change your life.

And today on the Running of the WIPs, that’s what we’re talking about.

#amwriting

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Blurred image with text: "If you identify with the thought, How am I going to become a better writer if I don’t hold myself to the fire? then the Running of the WIPs is going to be a life-changing experience for you… but it’s also going to be incredibly challenging." --Lani Diane Rich, running of the wips dot substack dot com
June 24, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Today on the Running of the WIPs (free writing advice all summer before we start a guided writing challenge this fall), I'm talking about frogs and process.

#writingtips #writingadvice #amwriting

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Blurred image with text: "As soon as you switch your writing advice mindset from “Do this thing,” to “Try this thing,” you’re 90% of the way there. Think of a process like kissing frogs; one of them could be a prince at any time, but you have to kiss it first to find out." --Lani Diane Rich, running of the wips dot substack dot com
June 21, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Today at the Running of the WIPs warm-up blog (free writing tips, instruction, and advice all summer), I'm talking about the difference between fixed and shifting processes.

#amwriting #authors #writingtips #writingadvice

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Blurred image with text: For example, when I was writing a Little Night Magic, I was struggling hard. I'm traditionally a write-in-order kind of writer, but I just keep getting stuck. I was on deadline, and desperate to get this in on time, so I started writing the scenes I was most excited about first, and then filled in the in-between stuff later." --Lani Diane Rich, running of the wips dot substack dot com
June 19, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Over the course of ten months, I will walk you through everything you need to do to write a book... a lot of which is the mindset work you need to do before you write.

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June 18, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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This week on the Running of the WIPs, as we warm up to start writing together in the fall, we need to start by shifting our focus from the writing, to the writer. We start with process.

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An image with the quote "process is not about what you write, it's about how you write. The problem with most writing advice is that one writer finds a process that works for them, and they tell other writers, and then those writers try it and it doesn't work, and they think they're failures. They're not. - Lani Diane Rich, What is Process, Anyway? running of the wips dot substack dot com
June 17, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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My thoughts on whether authors should read reader reviews. TL;DR: It's complicated.

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#writing #writer #writerslife #storytelling #stories #authors #authorlife #writingtips #writingadvice
Image of the following quote: So read the gushes. Snack on them between meals. Print them out and tack them to your walls. Make cross-stitch art out of them. They are your north star, and you should treat them as such.
June 15, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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We are in drafting for the Year of Writing Magically Workshop, and each day (well... most days) I pull a Tarot card to give people a random shot of meaning should they need something to get started. On the first day... I drew The Fool.

IYKYK.
Xander walking through the graveyard with a mace over his shoulder like it's a bindle
April 30, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Am thrilled to find all this research that supports the things I instinctively threw into my workshop last year.

I mean... I could have done that same research, but I went with the "this feels right" approach and huzzah! I was right!

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February 10, 2024 at 4:05 PM