I love blogging. I am blogging for years. Now I want to learn more about the craft of the personal essay.
With the help of Phillip Lopate's The Art of The Personal Essay (1995) and Crafting the Personal Essay, A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction by Dinty W. Moore (2010).
"The hallmark of the personal essay is its intimacy. The writer seems to be speaking directly into your ear, confiding everything from gossip to wisdom. Through sharing thoughts, memories, desires, complaints, and whimsies, the personal essayist sets up a relationship with the reader, a dialogue - a friendship, if you will, based on identification, understanding, testiness, and companionship."
Phillip Lopate in The Art of the Personal Essay.
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