- Hooray! @Mailchimp gets user roles (Admins, Managers, Authors, etc). Make it easier to manage client email programs: http://t.co/U03ppKPG ->
- Office 2013 retail licensing change ties suite to specific PC forever – Computerworld http://t.co/DEeIRLGE #microsoftbites ->
- The original "Pardon Me…" Grey Poupon spot revived 25 years later. Only now it includes car chase: http://t.co/DiaXBhSh ->
- Anyone still think TV is dead? Marissa Mayer unveils Yahoo's new look on Today (popular morning TV show): http://t.co/DnIo7d7Q ->
- Do aspiring chefs spend all day online reading advice on cooking instead of actually cooking? Or is it just aspiring writers? RT @fakeeditor ->
- New Post: Microsoft To Writers Buying MS Office 2013: "Screw You": http://t.co/yolSaSC7sx ->
- Is the literary essay extinct, declining or entering a Golden Age? The New Republic: http://t.co/8M8umjVVAi ->
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At age 50+, I took my first writing class, when I had the ridiculous idea that I could become a published travel adventure humor writer. The instructor suggested I study the personal essay as a possible direction for my (ill-conceived) literary future. He recommended an almost 800-page tome, The Art of the Personal Essay, by Lopate, which contains writings from 65 A.D. to the books publication in 1995.
I was just about to crack the cover (no, really) until I now read the medium is dead.
Well, back to blogging. Only the wife-person rejects my attempts in that arena.
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Look at all the time you’ve gained simply by reading this blog.
The personal essay isn’t dead, but I’d suggest it doesn’t pay enough to attract the kind of writers who do it justice. Maybe that wasn’t true in 65 A.D.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum, most blogs are essentially personal essays, and while most are (ahem) difficult to navigate, I have stumbled across a few fine writers.
Who also aren’t getting paid.
In other words, it’s probably best to do this stuff because you like it or you’re compulsive about it.
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