Tag: phillip lopate
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Day 90 of 1000: Roundabout and inefficient writing
In storytelling, you create meaning in roundabout and inefficient ways. This is a new mode for me.
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Day 54 of 1000: Finding my voice as a memoir writer
How do I find my voice as a memoir writer? Thinking about how to reframe the first essay in the Things Men Gave me series.
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Day 48 of 1000: On “show, don’t tell” in memoir
On the need for both retrospection and reflection in memoir and personal essay writing. For me, the reward of essay writing is in the telling, alongside the showing.