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Get Over Yourself! Writing the Personal Essay that Others Give a Damn About Who Dat? Bringing Your Profile Subject to Life Get Over Yourself! Writing the Personal Essay that Others Give a Damn About The greatest challenge a personal writer faces is creating work that is meaningful to others. The most crucial question a personal writer has to ask in an effort to meet that challenge is, who cares? Introspectives with a desire to communicate, at all levels of writing experience (including none), are welcome. No navel-gazers, please. Who Dat? Bringing Your Profile Subject to Life The profile, one of the foundations of narrative journalism, is a portrait painted in words. A profile writer serves as the reader’s eyes and ears, enabling the reader to experience the subject as palpably as one can without meeting in person. In this course, we’ll learn the interviewing and the writing aspects of the profile process: doing background research on a subject, honing interviewing techniques, coming up with secondaries, and trying on various styles, all in order to most vividly and precisely bring the subject to life on the page. We’ll also explore well-known profiles such as Lillian Ross’s “Portrait of Hemingway,” Gay Talese’s “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” and Bob Greene’s “Muhammad Ali is the Most Famous Man in the World.” This course is roughly half seminar (i.e. reading and discussion) and half workshop (executing a few short reporting/writing assignments and sharing them with the group). No writing to prepare in advance; all work will be new and generated during our week together. Inquisitive wordsmiths at all levels are welcome. Biography
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