Chipperish Media

19/08/2024

Join me tonight at 7pm MST as Jack Kramme and I celebrate 10 years of the The Passion of the Nerd!

Join Lani, Ian and Jack as we celebrate 10 years of Passion of The Nerd.

02/08/2024

The days come when you just don’t feel like doing whatever you said you were gonna do. That’s when preparing strategies to keep you energized ahead of time makes all the difference.

You will never convince me otherwise

29/07/2024

“Creativity is the love language of the universe. So get talking, sugar."



https://open.substack.com/pub/runningofthewips/p/creativity-is-the-love-language-of

26/07/2024

"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."



https://runningofthewips.substack.com/p/pants-on-pants-off

24/07/2024

I continue our Registration Week celebration by doing a thing I never thought I’d ever, ever do: drawing.

(Registration for the Running of the WIPs will be open into October, but signing up as early as you can is a kindness to me and my admin duties.)



https://runningofthewips.substack.com/p/theres-a-bull-in-the-rotwips-house

22/07/2024

Today is the day.

Registration is open for the Running of the WIPS, a process-first, writer-focused, communitycore, guided writing challenge to help writers get their first drafts done.

And here are five reasons why you—and your friends—should do it.



https://runningofthewips.substack.com/p/five-reasons-to-join-the-running

20/07/2024

Calling all writers! Are you ready to crush your writing goals? Join my 10 month guided writing challenge, the Running of the WIPs. Together, we'll build a supportive community, break through mindset blocks, and get that rough draft done!

Sign up now at https://runningofthewips.substack.com/

The Running of the WIPs is a process-first, writer-focused, communitycore, guided writing challenge. Click to read Running of the WIPS, by Lani Diane Rich, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.

19/07/2024

We all agree that the toxic voice inside is bad, but is there ever a time when you can push yourself to go a little farther without creating a poisonous inner weather system?

Yes.

You check for “the feeling."

I heard the question when you thought it, and today, I'm gonna answer it

17/07/2024

There is a fear that you can be too kind to yourself, that if you give yourself a break, somehow you’ll never find the motivation to write.

Today, I’m gonna challenge to that way of thinking about your creativity.

Short answer? No.

15/07/2024

As we prepare to start The Running of the WIPs writing challenge in September, we’re doing mindset warm up work with that nasty voice that tells you you’re not good enough.

Spoilers; there are none

12/07/2024

More answers to your questions about this year’s writing challenge, including when registration opens and how it’s all going to work. Exciting!

And more specific answers on the rotWIPs schedule...

10/07/2024

We’re tackling FAQs this week at the Running of the WIPs, and today we’re talking about commitment levels and Fat Orange Cats.

Want to know how a Fat Orange Cat can help your writing? Well, the link is right there!

Darlin', you'd be surprised...

01/07/2024

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.



https://runningofthewips.substack.com/p/light-as-a-feather-stiff-as-a-board

29/06/2024

What does the voice inside telling you you’re not good enough have to do with healing from trauma?

A lot. Actually.



https://runningofthewips.substack.com/p/the-spiral-staircase

27/06/2024

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.



https://runningofthewips.substack.com/p/your-biggest-battle-as-a-writer

24/06/2024

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.



https://open.substack.com/pub/runningofthewips/p/the-secret-that-isnt-really-a-secret

21/06/2024

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.



https://open.substack.com/pub/runningofthewips/p/kissing-frogs?r=1duh1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

19/06/2024

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.



https://runningofthewips.substack.com/p/fixed-and-shifting-processes