How personal is too personal?

zweebopp
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:51:36 +0000

Stay away from anything too personal. Since you don’t know who will do the reading, you’re setting yourself up. They want to get to know you…but only to a point. They aren’t your shrink or your parent, or your religious person (rabbi, priest, deacon), or your sib. it’s as much about your writing as it is about the topic. Focus on making a boring topic interesting, instead of making an interesting topic boring.