It's a Very Sad Thing

That when I did a Google search for "essay writers blogs" I got mostly a set of links to essay writing services! That is, people who will write essays for people who believe they are incapable of writing essays themselves and who have the money to buy themselves out of that situation.  Guaranteed not to be plagiarized.  As if such a dishonest practice needs to start out, at least, with honesty.  But I am dating myself here, I have forgotten that these essays for hire need to pass through various plagiarism detection programs.  Still, as an instructor, I would immediately have my doubts about anyone who could barely string together sentences for in-class writing producing a wonderfully fluent, polished essay at the end of the semester.  Yeah....right......

So far I have been tracking down a lot of wrong leads in my search for contemporary women bloggers who write personal essays (or at least who self-identify as personal essay writers).  What I am looking for is not the professional essay writer, who, even if she or he is not offering their talents as ghost writers, seems to be in the self-help, motivational writing business.  I'm sure I just haven't learned how to word my search.  What I am really looking for is women who write personal/instructional essays on arts and crafts.  I know I've read great things while running through posts of crafts blogs that I follow, but these posts come randomly, when inspiration hits, and are not the main purpose of the blog.  It's difficult, also, to find contemporary writers who skillfully blend in personal observations with observations on art, history, politics.  Plenty of comments on these things, but little reflection on where the author fits into the picture and acknowledgement of how the author's own personal strengths and weaknesses might color their observations of outside events.

Yet another reason to linger online when I need to be cleaning and gardening..... on the plus side, I'm starting to take notes for Module 1's essay and have completed the grammar self-exams for this week.