Ready to Hit Send An Editor’s Guide to Preparing Your Personal Essay for Publication
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What makes one personal essay impossible to put down while another, maybe equally well-written essay never quite comes alive? After years of reading, selecting, and editing hundreds of essays for literary magazines, I’ve noticed some patterns. The essays that stay with me (and those that editors often select for publication), aren’t necessarily the ones with the most dramatic stories or the most polished prose, they’re doing something else. Once you recognize those qualities, you begin to see them everywhere.
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What makes one personal essay impossible to put down while another, maybe equally well-written essay never quite comes alive? After years of reading, selecting, and editing hundreds of essays for literary magazines, I’ve noticed some patterns. The essays that stay with me (and those that editors often select for publication), aren’t necessarily the ones with the most dramatic stories or the most polished prose, they’re doing something else. Once you recognize those qualities, you begin to see them everywhere.
