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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 4h

Revision can be an enjoyable challenge. First though, you need a plan. @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social and I are offering an online intensive to jumpstart, propel, push your project to the finish. Oct 16-18 | On Zoom | Limit 24 writers. Full details and a registration link here: rebirthyourwriting.com

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Ultimate Revision Weekend - Rebirth Your Writing

You wrote it. Now make it work. ULTIMATE REVISION WEEKEND Three days of craft, Live Editing and guided self-editing to bring your book closer to publication This event is past; sign up for first dibs ...

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

“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean.” ~ Anne Carson

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Writing is a continuation. We take one breath after another, one step after another, always one step away from something, one word closer to something we don’t yet know." ~ @marciaaldrich.bsky.social

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” ~ Wendell Berry

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rose Metal is the best press imaginable, both rose-colored and golden.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it." ~ Alexander Calder

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"...anything that is art . . . is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.” ~ Edward Gorey

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"What I write is smarter than I am, because I can re-write it." ~ Susan Sontag

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"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 · 29/09/2026

"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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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We are biologically wired to identify patterns, connections, and cause and effect-in other words, to tell ourselves stories. It's how we have survived." ~ David Kessler

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Consider the hummingbird for a long moment. A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second... Each one visits a thousand flowers a day. They can dive at sixty miles an hour. They can fly backwards. They can fly more than five hundred miles without pausing to rest." ~ Brian Doyle

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." ~ Alice Walker

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense but not irrational or naïve. Art invites us to take the journey beyond price, beyond costs into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be." ~ Toni Morrison

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"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 · 21/09/2026

"Just do it, badly. Just write the thing you need or want to write, that you are avoiding. That avoidance is costing you greatly, isometrically, and in general well-being. So can you find one measly hour, to write, badly?" ~ Anne Lamott

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Jumpstart, propel, or add the final polish to works in any stage of completion. All you need is some pages-in-progress (or a full draft) and a willingness to deep-dive into Live Editing, craft prompts & guided revision. Oct 16-18 | Zoom | $595 Early Bird (ends Sept 20). rebirthyourwriting.com

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Ultimate Revision Weekend - Rebirth Your Writing

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“But if I can bear the nights, the days are a pleasure. I walk out; I see something, some event that otherwise would have been utterly missed and lost; or something sees me, some enormous power brushes me with its clean wing, and I resound like a beaten bell.” ~ Annie Dillard

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"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

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Stories of New Beginnings, Last Rites, and Betting it All On the Right Horse. Brevity issue 83 has launched this morning. brevitymag.com

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Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation." ~ Lorrie Moore

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Paragraph of the Week at The Humble Essayist comes from a brief essay in six parts by Noel Thistle Tague who embeds a story of grief into "some kind of fairy tale." Beautiful, disturbing, and moving at once it is from the newest issue of Brevity. www.the-humble-essayist.com

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Personal Essay | The Humble Essayist

Personal Essay | The Humble Essayist is devoted to the personal essay and the reflective memoir, forms that use the personal to illuminate a larger truth. Our main feature is the “Paragraph of the Wee...

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Don’t give into your fears, if you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.” ~ Paulo Coelho

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Sometimes the writer’s job is to reflect the horrors of the world, to strive to put disconcerting events into some kind of perspective... But at other times writers offer sanctuary, a way for people to set aside their problems." brevity.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/w...

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Writing That Brings Escape During Unsettling Times

DAYS AFTER ONE OF THE MOST TRAGIC EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, WAS IT THE WRONG ARTICLE AT THE WRONG TIME? By Ronnie Blair Sometimes what we write serves a greater purpose than what we imagined when…

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.” ~ Terry Tempest Williams

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"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 · 09/09/2026

“The breathing of the wise person comes from their heels, while most people breathe only from their throats.” ~ Zhuangzi

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little." ~ Tom Stoppard

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don’t want to get up. She’s so much more calming than my husband.” ~ @joycecaroloates.bsky.social

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen." ~ George Saunders

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Two days away: Why uncertainty is not just okay, but a secret power adding depth to your Memoir. With prompts and nudges. I'd love if you could join us on Friday. @crafttalks.bsky.social writingcraft.com/event/curios...

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WEBINAR | Power Your Memoir with Mystery: How Curiosity Fuels Craft - Craft Talks

The fuel that runs the engine of all good writing is our uncertainty…and the true curiosity of the writer.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Brevity Blog team, is pleased to be recognized once again, with thanks to @writersdigest.bsky.social

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don’t worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told. ~ Frank McCourt

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup." ~ Wendell Berry

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are excited to see your concise nonfiction.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

See how successful memoir writers handle the hard questions, the parts of the story that do not add up easily, the possibly unanswerable. With prompts and nudges :-) I would love for you to join me. writingcraft.com/event/curios...

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WEBINAR | Power Your Memoir with Mystery: How Curiosity Fuels Craft - Craft Talks

The fuel that runs the engine of all good writing is our uncertainty…and the true curiosity of the writer.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open." ~ Dorothy Allison

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible." ~ Doris Lessing

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it’s about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates." ~ Mordecai Richler

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wondering what I will learn next, what my book might reveal to me about my own life and unanswered questions, is what pulls me again and again back to the table when the writing started to founder. brevity.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/c...

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Curiosity Didn’t Kill the Cat

And It Is the Memoirist’s Best Friend By Dinty W. Moore The phrase about curiosity killing the cat goes back to Shakespeare, as do so many enduring phrases, but to be honest it rings false. I…

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” ~ Dolly Parton

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows." ~ Emily Carr

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