Crafting the Personal Essay
Dinty W Moore
- 11 augustus 2010
- 9781599632001
Samenvatting:
Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is an ever-changing creative medium that provides an ideal vehicle for satisfying the human urge to document truths as we experience them and share them with othersto capture a bit of life on paper. Crafting the Personal Essay is designed to help you explore the flexibility and power of the personal essay in your own writing. This hands-on, creativity-expanding guide will help you infuse your nonfiction with honesty, personality, and energy. You'll discover: An exploration of the basics of essay writing/bullet Ways to step back and scrutinize your experiences in order to separate out what may be fresh, powerful, surprising or fascinating to a reader/bullet How to move past private "journaling" and write for an audience/bullet How to write eight different types of essays including memoir, travel, humor, and nature essays among others/bullet Instruction for revision and strategies for getting published/bullet Brimming with helpful examples, exercises, and sample essays, this indispensable guide will help your personal essays transcend the merely private to become powerfully universal.