Friday writing prompt
On essay revision
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This week’s writing prompt
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When your braided essay is a matted mess
Today I’m teaching a three-hour class on untangling braided essays. I work with a lot of writers who weave memoir with research and/or criticism, and nearly every writer struggles with structure. Over the years, though, what I’ve come to realize is that structure is somewhat of a surface-level concern. For most writers, underneath structure is so hard there are often two, related issues.