{"id":190,"date":"2013-10-27T21:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-10-27T21:45:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T21:45:26","slug":"simple-structure-for-building-the-essay-by-susan-bono-guest-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/simple-structure-for-building-the-essay-by-susan-bono-guest-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Structure for Building the Essay by Susan Bono, Guest Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with Guest Blogger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiny-lights.com\">Susan Bono<\/a>, here are building blocks for writing personal essay, or memoir.<\/p>\n<p>Character: you<\/p>\n<p>Problem: give yourself a problem<\/p>\n<p>Struggle: problem creates conflict<\/p>\n<p>Epiphany: after struggle, a flood of new understanding<\/p>\n<p>Resolution: what you do differently as a result<\/p>\n<p>Many essays begin with a clear, straightforward statement of intent. All essays have an implied thesis and should have a clear angle \u2014a particular way of approaching and narrowing the subject matter.\u00a0 For example, notice how the following statements could shape your narrative from the start.<\/p>\n<p>I want to tell you how ______________changed my life. (Universal statement: this is the basic scaffolding for every personal essay)<\/p>\n<p>I learned about ________from ___________.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I would never learn to love ____________.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll continue this exploration of personal essay and memoir over the next few days with intriguing writing prompts suggested by Susan Bono.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with Guest Blogger, Susan Bono, here are building blocks for writing personal essay, or memoir. Character: you Problem: give yourself a problem Struggle: problem creates conflict Epiphany: after struggle, a flood of new understanding Resolution: what you do differently as a result Many essays begin with a clear, straightforward statement of intent. All essays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104],"tags":[117,113,106,119],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-bloggers","tag-memoir","tag-personal-essay","tag-susan-bono","tag-tiny-lights-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-34","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}