Charlene Lamy Edge Speaks about The Way International

Greetings, readers. When someone asks me how long it took to write my memoir, Undertow , I say about ten years. That refers to the time between 2007 and 2017, after I retired early from my technical writing job in the software industry to write the book. But really, the journey from initial idea to publication took much longer. A timeline of the book's journey is included in my second book, From the Porch to the Page: A Guidebook for the Writing Life. It is in Appendix 1. Below, I've posted it here for those interested. Thanks for reading, Charlene Edge Note: I do not use AI products to write my blogs or books. Appendix 1 – Timeline for Writing & Self-Publishing Undertow The following shows what turned out to be the timeline for writing and self-publishing my memoir Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International. New Wings Press, LLC. 2017. I did not plan this schedule ahead of time. It developed. In this chart, you’ll see mention...

Charlene pictured in Winter Park, Florida. 2022.  Hello, readers. Today's post is mainly for writers, but really, like all my posts, it's for all of you. What about writers and self-respect? Self-respect is connected to today's topic: writers and AI. Remember, AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. I know, I know. This issue of AI is all over the map. Some believe it's helpful in certain fields, like those pertaining to science and math. But if you ask some of us who care about literature, you might get a different response. We say something like this: If you want artificial novels, plays, poems, memoirs and articles spit out by a machine (in part or in whole), fine. But some of us don't. We don't want literature like that, and we sure won't write it like that. We refuse to use AI to create any literary works, i.e. poems, novels, plays, essays or ANYTHING else, including book reviews. We don't consider a book, for instance, as a product, although of cou...