Writing Poetry In The Dark With Stephanie Wytovich

How can you stop self-censoring your writing and share the deepest aspects of yourself with your readers? How can you break poetry out of the restraints that many try to put upon it? Stephanie Wytovich talks about these things and more. In the intro, 5 trends that are shifting the future of publishing with Monica Leonelle & Russell Nohelty; Direct Sales Strategies We Love from 36 Authors from BookBub; JFPennBooks Reading Order; AI Training Permission from Hugh Howey; Eleven Labs for AI voices and VoiceSwitcher with Storytel; Plus, Kickstarter for Writing the Shadow: Turn Your Inner Darkness Into Words; Chuck Palahniuk on James Altucher talking about unmasking shadows; Carl Jung's Red Book, which features in Stone of Fire. This podcast is sponsored byWritten Word Media, which makes book marketing a breeze by offering quick, easy and effective ways for authors to promote their books. You can also subscribe to the Written Word Mediaemail newsletterfor book marketing tips. Stephanie M. Wytovich is a Bram Stoker award-winning poet, as well as a horror novelist and essayist. She's also the poetry editor for Raw Dog Screaming Press and the editor of Writing Poetry in the Dark. You can listen above or onyour favorite podcast appor read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes Allowing poetry to break out from fitting in a box How to put together a poetry collection Balancing writing for therapy and writing for the reader Ways to stop ourselves from self-censoring Where the darker sides of ourselves come from The horror genre and what it encompasses Differences between mainstream books and award winners Benefits of being involved with a community of writers You can find Stephanie at StephanieMWytovich.com and on social media at @SWytovich and