Welcome to season 4 of the Brave Writer Podcast, A Brave Writers Life in Brief.

I'm Julie Bogart, your host.

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I worked as a professional writer, copy editor, ghost writer, and magazine editor and contributor before I started Brave Writer.

I had the good fortune of being in the homeschooling community and having friends who knew about my writing life, my professional writing life.

I wasn't actually using any curricula with my kids to teach writing. I didn't feel the need for it.

I was using books that I had already understood and known from my own writing life.

Well, I had some of my friends ask me,

if I would teach their kids and them how to teach writing.

They said they were having struggles using the writing manuals

that they had purchased at homeschool conventions or that

friends had suggested. So I said sure and for seven weeks we met during a Sunday school

class period at our local church and I taught parents and teachers how to teach writing.

Now, full confession, I assumed they'd be bored after two sessions. I actually thought that everything I was

going to say were the things they already expected to hear about writing. They just

needed a little extra encouragement.

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