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Loading... Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction (edition 2010)by Dinty W. Moore (Author)
Work InformationCrafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction by Dinty W. Moore
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Introduces the various types of personal essays, and I appreciated the writing exercises which created a lot of content for me to start working from. The publishing part of the book only spanned maybe two chapters. I'd recommend this guide to students and those who are still exploring the medium, but not to those who are already in the game and already publishing. ( ) Crafting the Personal Essay is a very readable and motivating book on writing the personal essay. Moore covers the nuts and bolts of writing the humorous, nature, travel, lyric, spiritual and food essay, providing numerous examples and tips. This is the first time I have heard essay writing defined as chasing "mental rabbits' but that is exactly what it is for me: a "hunt, a chase, a ramble through thickets of thought, in pursuit of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth" describes my essay-writing process of working through ideas and feelings and nailing them to paper. There are plenty of exercises to get the writer's pen to paper and build a fund of ideas and starters. Highly recommended! no reviews | add a review
A guide to writing the personal essay, including the basics of essay writing, how to move past private "journaling," and instructions for revision and strategies for getting published. No library descriptions found. |
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