The Everyday Personal Essay [Bharti Kirchner]
How do you get an idea for a personal essay from your everyday life? How do you develop the idea? What are the markets? Learn what makes for an enticing beginning and a successful ending. There are techniques from fiction you can use to make your essay more readable—and possibly more irresistible—to the editors. Learn the art and business aspects of the personal essay from a novelist who appears in many essay anthologies.