The Numb at the Lodge guide to writing guide - by Sam Kriss
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Lots and lots of lovely little thoughts
Ok hi! So I was hanging out with some of my beautiful and talented friends the other day and we ended up talking about how none of us are writing personal essays any more. If you don’t remember the personal essay, there were like ~10 years in which the only way to get nonfiction published online was to talk about the worst day you’d ever had in your life, and I guess we kept on having worse and worse days all the time to make a living, which seemed viable at the time. But now all the online publications that used to publish personal essays have gone bust, and we’re left out here in the…
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