From the Porch to the Page
A Guidebook for the Writing Life
Published on 23. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-0-9978747-2-3 (ISBN)
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From the Porch to the Page: A Guidebook for the Writing Life is Charlene L. Edge's most recent book-a delightful multi-genre collection with something for every reader and writer.
Edge's prose is crisp and to-the-point, her voice discerning yet collegial, speaking friend-to-friend, as she shares stories, realizations, and moments of beauty. At the heart of the collection are more than thirty short essays, containing insights into the writing craft, practical exercises, marketing tips, self-publishing advice, and recommendations of books on topics to nourish the emotional and intellectual lives of writers.
As well as exploring beloved authors and poets, Edge includes her own work to illustrate and enrich her essays: short-short stories about a character, Melanie Craven, who falls into sticky but enlightening predicaments; poems on themes of growth, love, loss, nature, travel, and being a writer; and a short story about her cult experience in her award-winning, book-length memoir Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International.
Beginning with "Readers Become Writers" and ending with "If You Want to Keep Writing," Edge's encouraging and gentle book guides us on a journey from porches to pages, as she highlights the vistas, detours, and delights on the writing path, along with truths we can all apply to poetry, prose, and life.
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Charlene Edge's most recent book is From the Porch to the Page: A Guidebook for the Writing Life-a delightful multi-genre collection with something for every reader and writer.Edge is also the author of the award-winning memoir, Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International.Charlene grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in a Roman Catholic family. In college, students recruited her into The Way International, a Bible-based cult; she gave it the next seventeen years of her life. After escaping The Way in 1987, she earned a BA in English Literature from Rollins College in 1994, graduating summa cum laude, and worked for more than a decade as a technical writer and proposal writer in the software industry. She is a published short-short story writer, an award-winning poet, and a member of the Florida Writers Association, The Authors Guild, and the International Cultic Studies Association. Charlene lives in Florida with her husband, Dr. Hoyt L. Edge, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Rollins College. She blogs about their world travels, the writing life, cults, and whatever catches her imagination. She loves to walk, swim, and read as many books as she can. Visit her at https://charleneedge.com.