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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 22h

Also on the subject of noticing: how tiny true stories will sharpen your writing mind @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t... #writingcommunity #memoir #writinglife #creativewriting #authorlife #skywriters

Tiny True Stories: How Micro Memoirs Make Us Better Writers

3 things we learn through studying and writing micro memoirs, that raise the level of our craft and apply to everything we write

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 1d

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ~ Groucho Marx

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 2d

Today let's compare writing to... gymnastics! (Desire, determination, pain, resilience...) @LainyCarslaw at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/w... #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writinglife #authorlife #skywriters

The Pride, the Pain, the Love, and the Grit: On Writing and Gymnastics

By Lainy Carslaw Ever since I was old enough to pick up a pen, I knew I wanted to be a writer. I would lock myself in my room, creating stories from my imagination and journal entries about my day.…

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 2d

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?” ~ Vita Sackville-West

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 5d

"Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art." ~ James Baldwin

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 6d

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ~ Jane Goodall

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 7d

"What I write is smarter than I am, because I can re-write it." ~ Susan Sontag (photo by Annie Leibovitz)

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 8d

"I write with soft pencils because you get to spend more time sharpening the pencil, which is easier and more fun than writing." ~ Stephen Sondheim

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 9d

"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth." ~ Edna Ferber

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 12d

A common mistake when trying to create empathy in the reader - @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/c... #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writingtips #writinglife #skywriters

Don’t Ask Readers to Cry for a Stranger (‘Cause They Won’t)

By Allison K Williams Ever been to a funeral for someone you don’t know? Maybe your spouse’s coworker’s spouse, or your mother’s friend’s cousin. You felt the warm, hu…

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 12d

"Sing and do not stop. March and do not stop. Work and do not stop. Write your story across the sky and don't despair because despair is the most powerful weapon of the dominant." ~ Luis Alberto Urrea / @urrealism.bsky.social

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 13d

"If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive." ~ Barry Lopez

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 14d

Someone once told me that every writer has a subject that underlies everything they write. It can be love or death, betrayal or belonging, home or hope or exile. I choose to think my subject is love, and most specifically love for the glittering world of non-human life around us ~ Helen Macdonald

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 14d

The fine art of perhapsing - essential sometimes for memoirists, also useful for novelists. @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/r... #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writingtips #memoir #writinglife #skywriters

Reconstruction: Writing the Unknown As If It’s Real Makes Stronger Scenes

By Allison K Williams How do you “show” when you just don’t know? First-person POV in both memoir and fiction demands emotional truth—but what happens when the main character doesn’t (or can’t) kno…

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 16d

"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise." ~ Julia Cameron

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 19d

"Listen to what makes your hair stand on end, your heart melt, and your eyes go wide, what stops you in your tracks and makes you want to live, wherever it comes from, and hope that your writing can do all those things for other people." ~ Rebecca Solnit / @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 19d

Memoirists are often advised to write once they are healed and have perspective, but sometimes that dilutes the power. (I'm currently having this same discussion with a client!) @mollyakin.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/f... #writingcommunity #skywriters

Writing from the Wound: Leaving Room for Raw Urgency

By Molly Akin The advice is passed down like scripture: write from the scar, not the wound. Let the trauma settle before you place it on the page. What happens, however, when we consider an alterna…

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 20d

"Write with a certain amount of hopelessness. It's better to be shocked by success than by failure." ~ Alexander Chee / @alexanderchee.bsky.social

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 20d

What does it mean to read like a writer? A library of posts to help you find your own way. @andreafirth.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/r... #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writinglife #creativewriting #writingtips #skywriters

On Reading as a Writer: A Brevity Blog Round Up

By Andrea A. Firth One of the gifts I gained from grad school* was learning how to read as a writer. I was immediately captivated and inspired by the iconic creative nonfiction writers we read: Bre…

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 21d

"A writer is an explorer. She knows she wants to get somewhere, but she doesn’t know if the somewhere even exists yet. It is still to be created. Don’t sit around looking inward... You have to propel yourself outward, young writer." ~ Colum McCann

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 21d

No answers here. No tips. Just a few raw - and funny - truths about getting your writing seen - Ravi Bhaskar at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/p... #writinglife #writingcommunity #authorlife #publishing #skywriters

Please Subscribe: My $40K+ Journey to Zero Followers

By Ravi Bhaskar Don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe! God, how I hate that line. Every time I hear it, I immediately close the tab and flee to someone with more dignity. So when I launched m…

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 22d

"Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

[Artwork: "Tralfamadorian," By Kurt Vonnegut]

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Jeremy Wattles @jtwattles.bsky.social · 23d

Today I have a piece up in the new issue Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social Thanks to all who have supported me in the last year as I’ve tried to recommit to writing.

Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 23d

Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White.
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Marjie Alonso @marjiealonso.com · 23d

Your grandfather will chase the protesting cook away when you waste five eggs by breaking the yolks. Then seven, eight, eleven.

He will celebrate your two perfect eggs ... the best he’s ever had, he tells you
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 23d

Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White.
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