What is the literacy aesthetic of modern essay? And how does it be shown and felt? This article's main focus is to provide some suggestions and discussions of essay's creation, which is base on the experiences of the people who write and teach essays. And also, this article provides some literary works as examples. In order to discuss the writing of essay, we have to start from the basic knowledge and preparation. This article attempts to discuss three aspects. First of all, "I am who I am": trying to figure out the meaning of "I" in the essay. Secondly, "the preparation of stringing beads" and "the secret of title" are going to solve the problems of controlling thesis, and accumulating experiences and inspiration. Last but not the least, "the need of self-understanding" describes the importance of writers to understand themselves and figure the characteristic of the essay out.