The growing popularity of the personal essay is not difficult to explain. The personal essay is short, easy to read, and poignant. It permits experienced and beginning writers alike to develop manuscripts and get them published in a timely manner. And the personal essay is ennobling; it affirms the universal humanity in the large and small details of the writer's life. In Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, Sheila Bender shares her tested and proven techniques for developing personal essays. She discusses eight ...
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The growing popularity of the personal essay is not difficult to explain. The personal essay is short, easy to read, and poignant. It permits experienced and beginning writers alike to develop manuscripts and get them published in a timely manner. And the personal essay is ennobling; it affirms the universal humanity in the large and small details of the writer's life. In Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, Sheila Bender shares her tested and proven techniques for developing personal essays. She discusses eight different types of essays and offers step-by-step instructions for writing each.She demonstrates her effective Three-Step Response Method for obtaining meaningful and useful feedback from readers and includes essays written by students and professionals to illustrate the different types of essays. She devotes a special chapter to suggestions and resources for editing riting well and getting published. This is an important book. Brenda Miller, author of Season of the Body: Essays and Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, says Sheila Bender is an extraordinary teacher in person and on the page. In Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, her enthusiasm, her wit, and her expertise provide us with exciting ways to approach the art of creative nonfiction. This book is chock full of useful instructions and prompts that will keep you writing a long time. In Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, Sheila Bender's adds numerous new essay examples and updated publishing and editing information to the content of her important, previously published book, Writing Personal Essays: How to Shape Your Life Experiences for the Page ( Writer's Digest Books, 1995). Sheila isthe author of eleven other books and of essays that have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.
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