A Writer's Notebook

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Essay Camp Postscript
Essay Camp

Essay Camp Postscript

How to move from your Essay Camp drafts to ideas for an essay.

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Nov 06, 2023
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The arm of the writer reaches for the meaning in the essay, or something. Getty.

Hello again!

I wanted to share a little talk that I recorded this morning, where I walk you through my own process of beginning to edit a five things draft into an essay. I’ve had more than a few requests to demonstrate this, so I decided I would go for it. Unfortunately I did not really have the time to turn it into a written post for today, but I thought a mini lecture might be of interest in its place.

In the following recording, I read a brief 500 word “five things” draft that I wrote this morning—before I decided to record this, in fact—and then discuss some of the different ways that I might be able to turn what I have written into an essay of various types.

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