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    Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction

    By Dinty W. Moore

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    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
    • Ways to step back and scrutinize your experiences in order to separate out what may be fresh, powerful, surprising or fascinating to a reader
    • How to move past private "journaling" and write for an audience
    • How to write eight different types of essays including memoir, travel, humor, and nature essays among others
    • Instruction for revision and strategies for getting published
    Brimming with helpful examples, exercises, and sample essays, this indispensable guide will help your personal essays transcend the merely private to become powerfully universal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriter's Digest Books
    Release dateAug 11, 2010
    ISBN9781599632001
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    Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction
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    Dinty W. Moore

    Dinty W. Moore's memoir Between Panic & Desire was the winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize in 2009. His other books include The Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, and The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes. He is a professor of nonfiction writing at Ohio University.

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    • 4/5
      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!