BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY YOU SAY?

I just finished reading about one man’s dedication and defense of the biographical essay and thought, ‘blog post?’

Like most writers, he lost me in the digressions.

Like most online readers, I scrolled on.

But here’s what you need to know:

An essay is not a short story, a poem, or a screenplay.

From Google AI:

 

An essay is a focused, structured piece of writing designed to inform, persuade, or analyze a topic through research and argumentation.

Key elements include a clear introduction with a thesis statement, evidence-based body paragraphs, and a concluding summary.

To write a good essay, plan with an outline, create a compelling thesis, use supporting evidence, and refine through multiple drafts.

 

Focused.

Structured.

Piece of writing.

Tell me how to drive people away from writing anything without being an English teacher.

The biographical essay takes a turn toward autobiographical here on BoomerPdx, now an autobiographer blog.

Yesterday it was a philosophic’s diary. Not any more.

Change is good? That’s what I hear.

 

Change This

Once you move away from the basics of pen, paper, idea, or idea, paper, pen, you’re still missing an important part: a writing surface.

Stability and flatness to create a booming essay you say? I do say.

If you say those word out loud you’re guaranteed to find out who in your circle was once an English major until they learned there was no value in it.

But just enough value to explain everything you didn’t need to know about not winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Pulitzer Prize, and every prize they’d ever heard of.

If that happens, this is your counter: The Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation.

 

There are three criteria for selection of Fellows:

• Exceptional creativity

• Promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishments which could be enabled by our support

• Potential for the Fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work

At the heart of the MacArthur Fellows Program is its aim to identify extraordinarily creative individuals with a track record of excellence in a field of scholarship or area of practice, who demonstrate the ability to impact society in significant and beneficial ways through their pioneering work or the rigor of their contributions.

In keeping with this purpose, the Foundation awards fellowships directly to individuals rather than through institutions. Recipients may be writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, or individuals in other fields, with or without institutional affiliations.

 

Be An Autobiographical Blogger writing biographical essay after essay?

I’ve got a track record of excellence in a field of scholarship or area of practice, broadly speaking.

With my winnings I will hire my wife to tell her incredible story of perseverance in the Portland business community, medical industry, and family balance.

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