What treasures lie in your discarded writings? I'm going to try these exciting exercises with my notebooks. Thank you @kimpittaway.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/e... #writingcommunity #authorlife #writingtips
"Making art is not easy. It asks you to open yourself to the unknown, and that means you might discover something wildly unexpected. You might even discover your world is not what you thought it was." ~ Jeannine Ouellette / @jeannineouellette.bsky.social
“Stories can be our most reliable medicine.” ~
@annelamott.bsky.social
"Always try to write about others more than you write about yourself. It’s how a narrator looks at the world surrounding him or her, what and who they look at, that ultimately interests a reader." ~ Kim Dana Kupperman
“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.” ~ Margaret Atwood
The journey to write your most difficult book - @lisarizzowriter.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/w... #writingcommunity #writinglife #memoir #creativenonfiction
"Every book is, at first, an unproven thing, an improbable fit, an act of heroics set against historical odds. Every book is nothing at all. Until we come along and write (or draw)." ~ Beth Kephart / @bethkephart.bsky.social
“Fishing with Pelicans: How to Hook a Publisher” in Brevity Blog. Inspiration while bird watching. brevity.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/f...
#pelican #bird #writing #publishing #inspiration
@dintywmoore.bsky.social
"Always assume the reader is at least as smart as you are." ~ Rick Bass
The cool folks at Chill Subs have made the Brevity team blush.
"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
On the point of giving up with his memoir, @jasonprokowiew.bsky.social was rescued by his mentor. @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/h... #writinglife #memoir #creativenonfiction #authorlife
"I urge (my writing students) to follow what falls onto the page, wherever it goes. That’s what I do. Whatever rises to the surface is where I need to be, and where I need to go, whether I know it or not." ~ Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
"Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly our options widen.... " ~ Julia Cameron
Writing for comfort or writing for truth? How one closing line makes a world of difference. @MansiBhatia at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/w... #writingcommunity #writinglife #creativewriting #creativenonfiction
"Writing is having a conversation with someone other than yourself. The first step in having a real conversation is to end the one you've been having all along." ~ David Whyte
Is it too soon to write your story? Brave post by @MoragWehrle at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/r... #writingq #writingcommunity #writinglife #memoir
"Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?"~Ann Patchett
When writing a memoir about family members there will be many truths. We can write only our own @judysandler.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/t... #writingcommunity #memoir #writinglife #writingtips
Brevity editor Dinty W. Moore will be reading and chatting next Monday at Duquesne University. He'd love to see you there.
“When you have rules like only beige or oatmeal, you’re limited to that palette. When you use all the different colors, there are no rules, there is no editor. It’s very freeing.” ~ Anado McLauchlin
How writing a book is a challenging swim of endurance, yet the water still beckons. @NancyPearson at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/d... #writingcommunity #writingtips #creativewriting
You change the world by being yourself. ~
Yoko Ono
"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it." ~ Kurt Vonnegut
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” ~ Maya Angelou
Did you hear the one about the lady and the octopus? On making unexpected and rich connections in memoir @ethanfreak.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/r... #writingcommunity #creativewriting
“Tell your story as though you are trying to keep people awake.” ~ Jesse Lee Kercheval
When we write about someone in our memoir, should we tell them? @KathrynSmith at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/w... #writingcommunity #writingq #authorlife #authorcommunity #memoir
"Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion." ~ Barry Lopez
