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  • The Writer

    Write to order

    Sep 11, 2021 5 minutes
    BY YI SHUN LAI

    I’m taking a class about the essay.

    The instructor of this class has had a great many personal essays published in consumer magazines and newspapers. It’s the genre of publication I used to appear in and edit for somewhat regularly, and I am trying to break my way back in, so here I am. I’m not sure what I expected, but I didn’t expect the instructor to show us a formula for all the personal essays she’s ever written and loved:

    Lead with this.

    Then follow up with this.

    Now go here.

    And she-bang! End this way.

    Voila! An essay fit for the New York Times’ “Modern Love” column, which is, fair play, the pinnacle for a good many writers I know.

    OK, I’m over-simplifying. But I remember seeing the outline laid out and every single fiber of my writerly self

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