Up: [[Personal Writing Genres - Essay, Memoir and Myth]] Created: 2024-03-21 Updated: 2025-02-11 > [!Orbit] Unknown > Save the great stuff and get rid of the good stuff. Any of fact, personal experience, or reflection can be either good stuff or great stuff. - You could print out your writing and cut it into paragraphs (Adair Lara) or write twelve paragraphs and then roll a pair of dice (Dinty Moore). Either way, play around with the order of the paragraphs. - Rewrite a piece from memory to see what new ideas come up. (Adair Lara) - Try [[Freewriting]] for 15 minutes about alternatives to your structure. This is the idea of [[Don’t Lock in Genre Too Early]]. > [!User] Suggestions from > Adair Lara, *Naked, Drunk, and Writing*, p. 119 > Dinty Moore, *Crafting the Personal Essay*