{"id":2626,"date":"2015-01-29T21:03:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2016-01-23T21:09:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T04:09:45","slug":"the-key-to-a-good-essay-is-conflict-and-victoria-zackheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/the-key-to-a-good-essay-is-conflict-and-victoria-zackheim\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe key to a good essay is conflict, and . . . Victoria Zackheim"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe key to a good essay is conflict, and the story\u2019s (and character\u2019s) arc. People have to change during the story, whether fiction or non-fiction. \u2014 Victoria Zackheim, interviewed by Chris Jane in JaneFriedman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Victoria Zackheim<\/a> is the author of the novel\u00a0The Bone Weaver<\/em>\u00a0and editor of six anthologies:<\/p>\n

He Said What?<\/p>\n

Women Write About Moments When Everything Changed<\/p>\n

The Other Woman<\/p>\n

Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal<\/p>\n

For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance<\/p>\n

The Face in the Mirror<\/p>\n

Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of Youth and the Reality of Age<\/p>\n

Exit Laughing: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death<\/p>\n

and the upcoming FAITH: Essays from Believers, Agnostics, and Atheists (Feb. 2015).<\/p>\n

Victoria’s play,\u00a0The Other Woman<\/em>, based on her first anthology, will be featured in OneNight\/OnePlay, and her play Entangled<\/em>, an adaptation of the memoir Entangled: A Chronicle of Late Love, is in development at Z Space in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Victoria\u2019s first screenplay, MAIDSTONE, is now in development. She is story developer and writer of Where Birds Never Sang: The Story of Ravensbruck<\/em> and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps, <\/em>aired nationwide by PBS.<\/p>\n

Victoria teaches Personal Essay in the UCLA Extension Writers\u2019 Program. Victoria was a 2010 San Francisco Library Laureate.<\/p>\n

Note from Marlene:<\/strong> I have taken classes by Victoria. She is an amazing teacher, well worth the price (and it wasn’t that expensive!).<\/p>\n

Want to challenge yourself?\u00a0 Take one of your characters (fiction or non-fiction) and do what Victoria suggests . . . give him or her a conflict.\u00a0 Spend thirteen minutes on a freewrite. See what happens.\u00a0 Need a boost?\u00a0 Take a look at Prompts 132<\/a> and 133<\/a> for ideas on character development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe key to a good essay is conflict, and the story\u2019s (and character\u2019s) arc. People have to change during the story, whether fiction or non-fiction. \u2014 Victoria Zackheim, interviewed by Chris Jane in JaneFriedman.com. Victoria Zackheim is the author of the novel\u00a0The Bone Weaver\u00a0and editor of six anthologies: He Said What? Women Write About Moments […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[614,626,625,274],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-jane-friedman","tag-san-francisco-library-laureate","tag-usla-extension-writers-program","tag-victoria-zackheim"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-Gm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","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=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4880,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/4880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}