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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"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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“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

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"That’s the balancing act at the heart of good description: noticing more than you’ll ever use, and then having the discipline to leave most of it out."
~ April Dávila

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"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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Two days away: Why uncertainty is not just okay, but a secret power adding depth and texture to your Memoir. With prompts and nudges. I'd love if you could join us on Friday. @Sharla_R_Yates https://t.co/hBdWj9EQpY

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@1funnyfarmAdams @GuerillaMemoir @WritersDigest Thanks Tracey.

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The Brevity Blog team, is pleased to be recognized once again, with thanks to
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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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"Writing has often felt to me like water purification: I take the murky water of my mind and purify it into something clear, even drinkable. And if I’m brave enough, I give others a sip. Writing for me is sustenance. It’s magic."
~ Danya Kaufmann

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"Many writers resist memoir because the life feels too large, too close, too complicated to enter directly. Where do you begin? Which version of the truth do you tell?"
~ Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr.

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