Becoming a Great Essayist

Becoming a Great Essayist « Series from 2016

Series from 2016

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Explore numerous types of essays, be challenged with writing prompts, and get insights into how to get to know yourself like never before so that you may write honest, compelling, and GREAT essays.

And because essays are so flexible in their style and function, the skills you build writing great essays may be applied to almost all other forms of writing.

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Steal, Adopt, Adapt: Where Essays Begin

Memory Maps and Your Essay’s Direction

Secrets, Confession, and a Writer’s Voice

The Skeptical Essayist: Conflicting Views

The Reasonable Essayist: Artistic Proofs

The Unreasonable Essayist: Strategic Irony

The Empathetic Essayist: Evoking Emotion

When an Essayist's Feelings Face Facts

Unabashedly Me: The First-Person Essay

Essayists as Poets: Tapping into Imagery

The Visual Essay: Words + Pictures

Writing Inch by Inch: From Draft to Polish

Short Forms: Microessays and Prose Poems

The Memoir Essay

Lyric Essays: Writing That Sings

The Epistolary Essay: Letters to the World

Portrait Essays: People in Words

The Essayist as Public Intellectual

Polemical Essays: One-Sided Arguments

Historical Essays: Past as Present

Humor Essays

Nature Essays

Food Essays: My Grandmother’s Recipe Box

Sharing Your Essays: From Blog to Book