This is, Quite Literally, What a Personal Essay Looks Like
In this visual guide from Creative Nonfiction magazine, learn about the basic "shapes" of memoir writing—and achieve a more personal, unique result in your work.
This CNF Classic by Tim Bascom is one of our all-time most popular StoryCraft articles. As a special little holiday treat, we’re making it free to everyone for the rest of this week. Enjoy!
PS: For all of you structure obsessives, next week at Narratively Academy, Kristina R. Gaddy is teaching another edition of one of our most popular classes, Advanced Craft Workshop: Finding Your Structure.
A design professor from Denmark once drew for me a picture of the creative process, which had been the subject of his doctoral dissertation. “Here,” he said. “This is what it looks like”: