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Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
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The creative resource of memory and dreams On the Brevity blog an interview with Dinty Moore with some prompts and tips for nonfiction writers and poets.
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Seeing into the Life of Things: Memory as an Act of Imagination
“I write in the perfume of the dream.” In his latest book, Rodger Kamenetz blends dreamwork and poetic imagination to offer pathways toward a more meaningful life, while also exploring …
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November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The creative resource of memory and dreams On the Brevity blog an interview with Dinty Moore with some prompts and tips for nonfiction writers and poets.
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"We’re all in line to get on that bus but few of us know when." ~ Charles Coe
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"We’re all in line to get on that bus but few of us know when." ~ Charles Coe
"Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely homework." ~ Joyce Carol Oates
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely homework." ~ Joyce Carol Oates
"There's no such thing as a born writer. It's a skill you've got to learn, just like learning how to be a bricklayer or a carpenter." ~ Larry Brown
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"There's no such thing as a born writer. It's a skill you've got to learn, just like learning how to be a bricklayer or a carpenter." ~ Larry Brown
"Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand." ~ Thomas Merton
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand." ~ Thomas Merton
"Examine all things intensely and relentlessly. Probe and search each object in a piece of art; do not leave it, do not course over it, as if it were understood, but instead follow it down until you see it in the mystery of its own specificity and strength." ~ Annie Dillard
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"Examine all things intensely and relentlessly. Probe and search each object in a piece of art; do not leave it, do not course over it, as if it were understood, but instead follow it down until you see it in the mystery of its own specificity and strength." ~ Annie Dillard
"Writing is not a recreational activity, it’s the way I process my life, how I move from day to day. It’s breath." ~ Patricia Smith
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"Writing is not a recreational activity, it’s the way I process my life, how I move from day to day. It’s breath." ~ Patricia Smith
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Circling the raindrop - behind the scenes in a writer's mind and the quest for truth and beauty. @rhondajr.bsky.social ay @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/s... #writingcommunity #slowliving #memoir #cnf #writinglife
How Searching for Writing Topics Became a Search for Truth and Beauty
By Rhonda J. Ray I awoke from a sleepless night, restless about choosing a topic for an essay. Standing by the kitchen window as I scooped coffee and listened to rain pattering outside, I thought a…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Circling the raindrop - behind the scenes in a writer's mind and the quest for truth and beauty. @rhondajr.bsky.social ay @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/s... #writingcommunity #slowliving #memoir #cnf #writinglife
"Think before you speak. Read before you think." ~ Fran Lebowitz
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"Think before you speak. Read before you think." ~ Fran Lebowitz
"I tell my students; I tell everybody this. When I begin a creative writing class I say, 'I know you've heard all your life, "Write what you know." Well I am here to tell you, "You don't know nothing. So do not write what you know. Think up something else." ~ Toni Morrison
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"I tell my students; I tell everybody this. When I begin a creative writing class I say, 'I know you've heard all your life, "Write what you know." Well I am here to tell you, "You don't know nothing. So do not write what you know. Think up something else." ~ Toni Morrison
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What a lovely concept: body doubling, finding regular online partners for creative work. @MalloryClarke @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/b... #authorlife #creativewriting #writinglife #skywriters
Body Doubling: How Writing with Others Saved My Sanity and My Manuscript
By Mallory Clarke I’m embarrassed to say this, but I loved lockdown during the pandemic. I was shakingly afraid of dying of COVID-19. Everything going on outside my home made me anxious; being stuc…
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November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
What a lovely concept: body doubling, finding regular online partners for creative work. @MalloryClarke @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/b... #authorlife #creativewriting #writinglife #skywriters
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the entire universe.” ~ Carl Sagan
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the entire universe.” ~ Carl Sagan
"The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced." ~ W. Somerset Maugham
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced." ~ W. Somerset Maugham
“Stories move in circles. They don’t go in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your way through them is as easy and hard as finding your way home.” ~ Naomi Newman
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
“Stories move in circles. They don’t go in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your way through them is as easy and hard as finding your way home.” ~ Naomi Newman
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What is joy? Do we recognise it enough? And what, as creative people, should we do with it? @bethkephart.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/j... #creativity #slowliving #creativelife #authorlife
Making the Case for Joy
By Beth Kephart “I drop to the sand,” Mary Oliver writes in “Owls,” as she traces a moment’s reverie. “… I am replete, supine, finished, filled to the last edges with an immobilizing happiness.” To…
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November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
What is joy? Do we recognise it enough? And what, as creative people, should we do with it? @bethkephart.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/j... #creativity #slowliving #creativelife #authorlife
“Use a reader's leisure time in such a way that the reader will not feel his time has been wasted.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“Use a reader's leisure time in such a way that the reader will not feel his time has been wasted.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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If you have any kind of published book, the chances are you've heard from these scammers. Don't be reeled in @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/l... #authorlife #bookmarketing #writinglife #writingcommunity #skywriters
Invited to a Book Club? Reviewers Ready to Boost Your Book? Have (A)I Got News For You
By Allison K Williams Oh I’m so excited! “William Susan” runs a community of 3,000+ readers and reviewers and they found a play I wrote and REALLY LIKED IT! Allison, your The…
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November 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
If you have any kind of published book, the chances are you've heard from these scammers. Don't be reeled in @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/l... #authorlife #bookmarketing #writinglife #writingcommunity #skywriters
"How do we write joy without all the implied exclamation marks, the gooey language, the purpling of our prose? How do we make, of joy, a story that is alerting, alive, and credible?" ~ Beth Kephart
November 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"How do we write joy without all the implied exclamation marks, the gooey language, the purpling of our prose? How do we make, of joy, a story that is alerting, alive, and credible?" ~ Beth Kephart
“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see." ~ Joseph Conrad
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see." ~ Joseph Conrad
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In #writingcraft what is 'show not tell'? This, from @dintywmoore.bsky.social, should clarify brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/h... #storytelling #writingcommunity #amwriting
The Mottled Orange of an Autumn Pumpkin: A Brevity Blog Round Up on The Enduring Power of Detail
By Dinty W. Moore Anton Chekhov once advised his younger brother, “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” This advice, which is only a summary of what…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In #writingcraft what is 'show not tell'? This, from @dintywmoore.bsky.social, should clarify brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/h... #storytelling #writingcommunity #amwriting
"Halloween ... is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the ... departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap." ~ Jenny Colgan
October 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"Halloween ... is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the ... departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap." ~ Jenny Colgan
"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms." ~ Mary Oliver
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms." ~ Mary Oliver
"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going." ~ Tennessee Williams
October 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going." ~ Tennessee Williams
"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. " ~ James Joyce
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. " ~ James Joyce