Articles for tag: Personal Essay

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Differences of the Informal and the Formal Essay

The Essay Explained The essay as a distinct form of literature is an expository piece of writing that reveals the author’s thoughts, feelings and reflections on a significant human experience. The experience may be personal or it could be vicarious. Furthermore, that vicarious experience might have reached and deeply touched the author’s consciousness through his ...

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Ten Tips for Writing Personal Essays (And Getting Them Published)

Although personal essays are not as coveted by editors as they once were, it is still possible to write a personal essay and to find a publication that will buy it. As evidenced by the success of the Chicken Soup series, as long as your personal essay is original, though-provoking, entertaining and interesting, it can ...

Writing for Music Magazines

If you think that you can’t write for music magazines just because you can’t play the guitar or the violin, you would be wrong. Most writers for music magazines are mere aficionados of music, and are not necessarily musically inclined. In fact, some music publications prefer non-professionals as they can talk to a layman audience ...

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Qualities of a Well-Written Short Story

Most writers would assert that the qualifications of a well-written short story are limited to length, but they would be wrong. While the length of a short story is important – most are shorter than 5,000 words – there are other qualities that a work of fiction must possess in order to be considered a ...