'I thought reading for a lit mag would be an altruistic chore, but it turned out to be one of the best decisions I’ve made in a while. It improved my writing and editing skills and introduced me to a new segment of the writing community.' ~ Jillian Barnet brevity.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/rea…

'For the first time in my life, I realized telling the truth was way different from finding the truth, and finding the truth had everything to do with revisiting and rearranging words.' ~ Kiese Laymon

Micro memoirs are a great tune-up for your powers of description, characterisation and #storytelling . Here are some ideas to try. Heather Sellers Dinty W. Moore brevity.wordpress.com/2024/05/07/mic… #writingcommunity #amwriting #authorscommunity #creativewriting

Heather Sellers offers up two recipes for beginning and developing a Brevity-sized micro essay -- The Poetic Lyric and The Micro in Scene. brevity.wordpress.com/2024/05/07/mic…

One can’t truly experience the world second-hand. ~ Pico Iyer

Don’t pin it to a board or press its wings under glass like a moth ... It’s a wild, wanting creature, this thing we call #writing . It yearns for the reader. So let the thing live as it was born: ravenous. ~ Gary Reddin brevity.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/her…

'A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.' ~Thomas Mann

It's bank holiday in the UK, so here's a lighthearted post about being edited. Ali Solomon at Dinty W. Moore brevity.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/god… #writingcommunity #authorscommunity #authorsoftwitter #storytelling #creativewriting

'I didn’t know how to answer the big questions about my gender ... So I started with what I did know, which was the landscape of Tucson, AZ.' Thank you Frances Metzger (Country Bookshelf) for chatting w/ me about CACTUS COUNTRY in this Indies Introduce Q&A! bookweb.org/news/indies-in…

Richie Clint Smith 💐 Maurice 💐 Claire Taylor Richie's piece, 'It’s About the Size of a Clenched Fist,' was first published in Dinty W. Moore. brevitymag.com/nonfiction/cle…

'And maybe for future commandments, we leave out specific people’s names? Keep it vague: 'Thou shalt keep the Sabbath and make it holy,' instead of 'Lyle shalt keep the Sabbath.' You’ll use up less stones that way.' Humor from Ali Solomon / Ali Solomon brevity.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/god…

'He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.' ~ Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

What’s in a Name?—The Risks of Writing About Family brevity.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/wha… via Dinty W. Moore #memoir #amwriting

When family objections stop you writing the truth, what do you do? Laurie Hertzel at Dinty W. Moore brevity.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/wha… #writing #amwriting #creativewriting #memoir #authorscommunity #writing community

It’s common for memoirs to include pseudonyms, but this doesn’t feel like a solution. Names are tied to personalities; change the name, you change the persona. And isn’t it easy for anyone who knows my family to figure out who is who? ~ Laurie Hertzel brevity.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/wha…

'The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in different city.' ~ Vance Bourjaily

Today from Dinty W. Moore: Dinty W. Moore interviews B.J. Hollars about his new book YEAR OF PLENTY, publishing May 14!

Read the interview: brevity.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/sea…

'If you honor the complexity of your own life—if you grant us entry into moments that hold shame or hurt or heat, and if you’re willing to follow that heat, to feel out where all the small fires burn, then your readers will trust you.' ~ Leslie Jamison

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