Dinty W. Moore

Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions, founded in 1997. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.

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"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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"Molly: Our processes sound similar in that we both are getting something messy down and then using our respective skills and training to make sense of it.

Amy: That sounds like both the art and science of writing to me."

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Stories of New Beginnings, Last Rites, and Betting it All On the Right Horse. Brevity issue 83 has launched this morning. https://t.co/ccHQ11MPOr

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

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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.
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“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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"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." https://t.co/7A1IWRNZm0

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

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In difficult times, our writing might seem frivolous, irrelevant, even disrespectful. Here's why it isn't - @RBlairWriter at @brevitymag https://t.co/44vAX6xaa4 #writingcommunity #writinglife #creativewriting

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"But at other times writers offer sanctuary, a way for people to set aside their problems, if only briefly, and be reminded that hope is still there even when the darkness tries to hide it from us."
- Ronnie Blair

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"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

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"But beyond the direct imaginative influence of a particular setting, sometimes where you write is just the result of where you feel most relaxed or inspired."
~ James Stephens

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"But I am not really watching the birds to identify them, or track their journeys.
I am watching to see how they do their work, because I like to write like a hummingbird."
~ Judy Sandler

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

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September is moving fast, but you're moving faster! We want to read your best fiction, essays, poetry, and work in translation. All guidelines at the link:

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"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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"Our job as writers, whatever the project, is to look for what doesn't make sense." --@brevitymag via #CraftTalks

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

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"...I find mountaineering a useful metaphor, map, and inspiration for the writing process. Like writing, mountaineering requires imagination, enthusiasm, creativity, and courage."
~ Kate Levin

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🚨 TODAY! 🚨
Power Your Memoir with Mystery: How Curiosity Fuels Craft with Dinty W. Moore

📅 Sept 4, 3pm EST
💰 $30

Explore how uncertainty and curiosity can fuel your memoir, uncover new possibilities, and revive a stalled project. ✍️

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