Writing As A Tool For Grief And Dealing With Change With Karen Wyatt
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
How can writing help you through difficult times, whether that's a change you didn't anticipate or an experience of grief? How can you differentiate between writing for yourself vs. writing for publication? Karen Wyatt gives her tips.
In the intro, Amazon opens up AI narration with Audible Virtual Voice on the KDP Dashboard [KDP Help]; Voice Technologies, Streaming And Subscription Audio In A Time Of Artificial Intelligence; Spotify announces short fiction publishing for indie authors [Spotify]; Audio for Authors: Audiobooks, Podcasting, and Voice Technologies — Joanna Penn; Writing for Audio First with Jules Horne; Writing for Audiobooks: Audio-first for Flow and Impact – Jules Horne. BookVault.app is now printing in Canada, as well as Australia, UK, and US.
Plus, Measure your life by what you create: 50 by 50; and Reykjavik Art, Northern Lights, and The West Fjords: Iceland, Land of Fire and Ice; Books and Travel Podcast returns this week; Writing the Shadow on the Biz Book Broadcast with Liz Scully; ElevenLabs speech to text for dictation.
Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital, self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. Just go to www.draft2digital.com to get started.
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Dr. Karen Wyatt is a retired hospice physician and bestselling author of books about death, loss, and grief. She's also the host of the End-of-Life University Podcast and an inspirational speaker.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:08.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing craft and creative business. |
| 0:14.6 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint, and lots more at the creative pen.com. And that's Pen with a |
| 0:23.7 | double N. And here's the show. Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number |
| 0:30.2 | 79 of the podcast. And it is Saturday the 15th of March, 2025 as I record this. |
| 0:38.7 | In today's show, I'm talking about writing as a tool for grief with Karen Wyatt. |
| 0:44.8 | We talk about the different types of grief that we deal with throughout life, |
| 0:48.9 | using writing to deal with complex emotion, |
| 0:52.0 | when something is personal writing and when you might consider publishing it, how to deal with complex emotion, when something is personal writing and when you might consider publishing |
| 0:55.7 | it, how to deal with family members or friends who might have issues with your writing, |
| 1:01.6 | aspects of spirituality in grief and more. I was also recently on Karen's show, End of Life |
| 1:08.9 | University, talking about how to write nonfiction about difficult |
| 1:13.1 | topics like grief. So you can also have a listen to that if you enjoy our conversation. |
| 1:18.9 | So that's coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:25.2 | In writing and publishing things, well, it's all about audio again this week. So a few weeks ago, |
| 1:32.1 | Spotify announced the integration with 11 Labs AI narration. So you can publish those files through |
| 1:38.5 | Find Away Voices owned by Spotify and they will be on Spotify as well as some other platforms. |
| 1:44.0 | And I said at the time |
| 1:45.9 | when I announced that, what will the response of Amazon be, since this will no doubt bring |
| 1:51.1 | AI narration into the mainstream? And we already have the response. So it looks like Amazon is now |
| 1:58.0 | rolling out audible virtual voice, AVV, their AI narration service into other |
| 2:04.7 | territories. So it has been available in the US and on limited beta invite only for over a year. |
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