Some tips on personal essay writing

Some Guidelines on Personal Essay Writing:

Focus on CONCRETE, SENSORY DETAILS

Resist the temptation to analyze yourself or the situation

Create the world and let the reader make her own judgments

Write that thing that’s too dangerous to talk about, that thing that cannot be said…

Run towards the shame: the path to truth runs through shame

When we say “beautiful,” we mean “true”

We become patient when someone is telling the truth

You can’t get reader invested without concrete physical detail

Write about things you can’t get rid of by other means

Second guess decisions but not ability