In this July 19, 2022, Life Writers master class, award-winning author Charlene Edge shares how to lather up your writing with S.U.D.S., the secret behind her newest book, From the Porch to the Page: A Guidebook for the Writing Life.
While the book is structured as a guidebook for writers, it didn’t start out that way. Hear Charlene’s zig-zag book-production story full of surprising lessons you can apply to your own writing project. She will read portions from the book and welcome your questions for discussion about the writing life and craft.
Charlene is also the author of Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International. To read the first chapter of Undertow, “Hiding in Plain Sight,” click here. Charlene has generously shared with us the timeline of her book journey in writing Undertow. We have much to learn from her experience. See Charlene’s timeline here.
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Charlene Edge, award-winning author and poet, published short story writer
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Listening to the discussion in the episode replay today…Upon Jennifer’s comment on the book, I started thinking about how sometimes a work of writing can come to us at time in our lives when we aren’t ready to feel an emotion the piece is exposing. Even if we are able to critique the words and how the words are organized on the pages, we may have an allergy to a certain topic, activity, or attitude of a character, I think it is ok to be vulnerable about that. At a later time, we might reading that piece again, and only… Read more »