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1 swell paragraph from Joan Didion
Posted on June 14, 2018 Leave a Comment
Swam through Joan Didion’s “South and West,” scattered notes and essays (mostly about visiting the south) and came across this gem. For me basically confirms why she’s the best:
Journal vs. Diary vs. Notebook
Posted on May 24, 2018 Leave a Comment
Not necessarily for the better, but the form of a journal nudges your thinking into becoming more linear, in-depth, focused, and comprehensible for a reader with a quick eye and probable impatience. It encourages that word that most writers hate yet desperately need—discipline.
What’s the difference between personal narrative and memoir?
Posted on March 31, 2018 Leave a Comment
Personal narrative vs memoir This goes out to my writing students who scratch their head over my presumptuous ass throwing “personal narrative” and “memoir” around like they should automatically know the differences. In my understanding, personal narrative is using your life’s story to illume some larger issue: mental health, intersectional, feminism, racism, nature, border walls. […]