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How Story Works
Chipperish Media
93 episodes
3 months ago
How Story Works is a podcast for everyone who loves stories. If you’re a writer, understanding how story works will help you craft better stories. If you’re a lover of stories, the podcast will give you added insight into your favorite tales, and extend the toolset you use to better understand the stories you love. Join NYT bestselling author and story expert Lani Diane Rich as she demystifies stories and storytelling, allowing you to better write and appreciate the stories you love.
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How Story Works is a podcast for everyone who loves stories. If you’re a writer, understanding how story works will help you craft better stories. If you’re a lover of stories, the podcast will give you added insight into your favorite tales, and extend the toolset you use to better understand the stories you love. Join NYT bestselling author and story expert Lani Diane Rich as she demystifies stories and storytelling, allowing you to better write and appreciate the stories you love.
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Episodes (20/93)
How Story Works
Chapter 8: On Meaning (+ End Matter)

Show notes:

  • Get your free digital copy of How Story Works
  • Learn more about the Running of the WIPs
  • Subscribe to The Running of the WIPs
  • Apply for the 2025 Year of Writing Magically workshop
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer Substack
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast RSS feed
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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11 months ago
12 minutes

How Story Works
Chapter 7: Character
11 months ago
50 minutes

How Story Works
Chapter 6: Structure in Practice

Show notes:

  • Get your free digital copy of How Story Works
  • Learn more about the Running of the WIPs
  • Subscribe to The Running of the WIPs
  • Apply for the 2025 Year of Writing Magically workshop
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer Substack
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast RSS feed
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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11 months ago
42 minutes

How Story Works
Chapter 5: Structure in Theory

Show notes:

  • Get your free digital copy of How Story Works
  • Learn more about the Running of the WIPs
  • Subscribe to The Running of the WIPs
  • Apply for the 2025 Year of Writing Magically workshop
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer Substack
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast RSS feed
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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11 months ago
34 minutes

How Story Works
Chapter 4: Conflict

Show notes:

  • Get your free digital copy of How Story Works
  • Learn more about the Running of the WIPs
  • Subscribe to The Running of the WIPs
  • Apply for the 2025 Year of Writing Magically workshop
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer Substack
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast RSS feed
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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11 months ago
45 minutes

How Story Works
Chapter 3: Narrative Principles

Show notes:

  • Get your free digital copy of How Story Works
  • Learn more about the Running of the WIPs
  • Subscribe to The Running of the WIPs
  • Apply for the 2025 Year of Writing Magically workshop
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer Substack
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast RSS feed
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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11 months ago
15 minutes

How Story Works
Chapter 2: Craft and Magic

Show notes:

  • Get your free digital copy of How Story Works
  • Learn more about the Running of the WIPs
  • Subscribe to The Running of the WIPs
  • Apply for the 2025 Year of Writing Magically workshop
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer Substack
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast RSS feed
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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11 months ago
9 minutes

How Story Works
Chapter 1 - On Story

Show notes:

  • Get your free digital copy of How Story Works
  • Learn more about the Running of the WIPs
  • Subscribe to The Running of the WIPs
  • Apply for the 2025 Year of Writing Magically workshop
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer Substack
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast RSS feed
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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11 months ago
28 minutes

How Story Works
Intro + How This Book Works

Show notes:

  • Get your free digital copy of How Story Works
  • Learn more about the Running of the WIPs
  • Subscribe to The Running of the WIPs
  • Apply for the 2025 Year of Writing Magically workshop
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer Substack
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast RSS feed
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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11 months ago
8 minutes

How Story Works
How Story Works: The Audiobook

Show notes:

  • Get your free digital copy of How Story Works
  • Learn more about the Running of the WIPs
  • Subscribe to The Running of the WIPs
  • Apply for the 2025 Year of Writing Magically workshop
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer Substack
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast RSS feed
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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11 months ago
2 minutes

How Story Works
The Running of the WIPs

Show notes:

Lani returns to the How Story Works mic to update everyone on her novels-in-progress and announce a new 10-month writing challenge designed to help writers get their drafts done, The Running of the WIPs!

  • Learn more about the Running of the WIPs
  • Subscribe to The Running of the WIPs
  • Visit the new How Story Works website
  • Apply for the 2025 Year of Writing Magically workshop
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer Substack
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast RSS feed
  • Get your copy of How Story Works!
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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1 year ago
1 hour 18 minutes

How Story Works
Emotional Work for Writers (correct file)

NOTE: A mistake was made in the original posting of this episode; this is the correct audio file. My apologies!

Lani talks about the progress she made--and didn’t make--on her writing retreat to New York, shares the Year of Writing Magically writing schedule, and talks about the emotional work writers must do to prepare for a long-form fiction project.


Show notes:

  • Apply to be part of the Year of Writing Magically 2024 cohort
  • Not ready to apply? Sign up for the Year of Writing Magically (very occasional) newsletter
  • Read the Dear Writer about my childhood ghosts
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer newsletter
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast
  • Get your Year of Writing Magically full year writing schedule free
  • Get your copy of How Story Works!
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.


★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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1 year ago
56 minutes

How Story Works
Emotional Work for Writers

Lani talks about the progress she made--and didn’t make--on her writing retreat to New York, shares the Year of Writing Magically writing schedule, and talks about the emotional work writers must do to prepare for a long-form fiction project.


Show notes:

  • Apply to be part of the Year of Writing Magically 2024 cohort
  • Not ready to apply? Sign up for the Year of Writing Magically (very occasional) newsletter
  • Read the Dear Writer about my childhood ghosts
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer newsletter
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast
  • Get your Year of Writing Magically full year writing schedule free
  • Get your copy of How Story Works!
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.


★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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1 year ago
56 minutes

How Story Works
Marketing & Writing Magically with Joshua Unruh

Lani sits down with marketing professional and author Joshua Unruh to talk about how to market yourself as an indie author, and his experience as part of the 2023 Year of Writing Magically cohort.


Show notes:

  • Check out Trusted Housesitters
  • Sign up for the Year of Writing Magically pre-workshop workshop!
  • Apply to be part of the 2024 Year of Writing Magically cohort!
  • Get your copy of How Story Works!
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.


★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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2 years ago
1 hour 25 minutes

How Story Works
Reframing with Melina Kantor

Lani sits down with writer Melina Kantor to talk about how sometimes the problem with our writing isn’t actually with our writing, but how we think about our writing.


Show notes:

  • Visit the new How Story Works website
  • Apply for the 2024 Year of Writing Magically workshop
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer Substack
  • Subscribe to the Dear Writer podcast RSS feed
  • Get your copy of How Story Works!
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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2 years ago
51 minutes

How Story Works
Getting Quick and Dirty with Mignon Fogarty

Lani gets quick and dirty with Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, as they talk about the most powerful things people can do to improve their writing and how email is absolutely NOT obsolete.

  • Check out Mignon Fogarty at Quick and Dirty Tips!
  • Get the How Story Works ebook or paperback
  • Get the How Story Works audiobook free with a new Audible subscription
  • Get the Dear Writer newsletter!
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich with Dr. Kelly Jones, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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2 years ago
50 minutes

How Story Works
The Muddy Middle with Cara Stevens

Sometimes you get 70 pages into a book and just... stop. Author Cara Stevens, best known for children's picture books, joins Lani to talk about her struggle to get past the muddy middle and finally finish a complete full-length draft.

  • Learn more about Cara Stevens and Picture Perfect!
  • Get the How Story Works ebook or paperback
  • Get the How Story Works audiobook free with a new Audible subscription
  • Get the Dear Writer newsletter!
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich with Dr. Kelly Jones, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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2 years ago
1 hour 6 minutes

How Story Works
Writing with ADHD

Lani talks about her latest adventures, and blocks, in her writing process, and then talks to writer and podcaster Brandon Saiz about how his recent ADHD diagnosis opened up writing for him in new and surprising ways.


Show notes:

  • Get on the mailing list to be notified when applications open for 2024’s Year of Writing Magically
  • Sign up for Lani’s free Dear Writer newsletter
  • Sign up for Brandon Saiz’s newsletter
  • Get your copy of How Story Works!
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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2 years ago
1 hour

How Story Works
The Drafting Doldrums

Lani returns to talk about the drafting process, forgetting to do her homework, and what it's like to return to an active writing process after a long break.

  • Get the How Story Works ebook or paperback
  • Get the How Story Works audiobook free with a new Audible subscription
  • Get the Dear Writer newsletter!
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich with Dr. Kelly Jones, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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2 years ago
45 minutes

How Story Works
Going Independent with Shipwrecked Comedy

In the newest episode of #HowStoryWorks, Lani interviews Mary Kate Wiles, Sean Persaud and Sinead Persaud about going independent as creatives. Also, updates on the Year of Writing Magically and Lani’s Dear Writer Substack.


Show notes:

  • Learn more about Shipwrecked Comedy
  • Subscribe to Dear Writer
  • Be the first to know when applications open for the 2024 Year of Writing Magically Workshop 
  • Get your copy of How Story Works!
  • Support Chipperish on Patreon!
  • Support Chipperish by shopping on Amazon using this link!

How Story Works is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Show more...
2 years ago
1 hour 2 minutes

How Story Works
How Story Works is a podcast for everyone who loves stories. If you’re a writer, understanding how story works will help you craft better stories. If you’re a lover of stories, the podcast will give you added insight into your favorite tales, and extend the toolset you use to better understand the stories you love. Join NYT bestselling author and story expert Lani Diane Rich as she demystifies stories and storytelling, allowing you to better write and appreciate the stories you love.