Essay Camp Postscript

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

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.