Is the personal essay dead? While the author of this essay claims it is, writers on Medium demonstrate otherwise.
[T]here’s a specific sort of ultra-confessional essay, written by a person you’ve never heard of and published online, that flourished until recently and now hardly registers. The change has happened quietly, but it’s a big one: a genre that partially defined the last decade of the Internet has essentially disappeared.
Image: Painting by Brianna Keeper
Needull in a haystack 
check out https://alohamoraunlockcreativity.wordpress.com/2018/03/03/broken-things/