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“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see." ~ Joseph Conrad

The Mottled Orange of an Autumn Pumpkin: A Brevity Blog Round Up on The Enduring Power of Detail By Dinty W. Moore Anton Chekhov once advised his younger brother, “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” This advice, which is only a summary of what…

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The Mottled Orange of an Autumn Pumpkin: A Brevity Blog Round Up on The Enduring Power of Detail By Dinty W. Moore Anton Chekhov once advised his younger brother, “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” This advice, which is only a summary of what…

In #writingcraft what is 'show not tell'? This, from @dintywmoore.bsky.social, should clarify brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/h... #storytelling #writingcommunity #amwriting

"Halloween ... is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the ... departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap." ~ Jenny Colgan

"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms." ~ Mary Oliver

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going." ~ Tennessee Williams

"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. " ~ James Joyce

Three Is the Magic Number The Power of a Small, Committed Writing Group Anna Rollins By Sarah Canney, Amre Klimchak, and Anna Rollins When The Shit No One Tells You About Writing podcast offered a free matchmaking service i…

How do you build a sustainable writing group that helps you achieve your goals? @SarahCanney, @amreklimchak.bsky.social @annajrollins.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/t... #writinglife #creativelife #authorlife #skywriters

"Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?" ~ William Kittredge

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14 Lit mags with excellent reputations *Competitive *Popular • AGNI #Jolting the inner eye • Baltimore Review #Space for expression • Brevity #Spotlighting the brief essay form • Gulf Coast #Community-oriented excellence • The Cincinnati Review #Championing diversity and growth • Granta #Narrative, visceral, and high-stakes • Georgia Review #Honoring differences • Kenyon Review #Lyric risk and emotional presence • The Malahat Review #Top-tier writing with a Canadian focus • Island Magazine #Sharp, artful, and grounded • The Missouri Review #Current and curated • Black Warrior Review #A beacon for adventurous writing • The Threepenny Review #Radical accuracy and genuineness • SmokeLong Quarterly #Eclectic and challenging work

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"Make room for new truths that are more potent than the ones we think we know." ~ Jeannine Ouellette / @jeannineouellette.bsky.social

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." ~ Dorothy Parker

Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice What is a Skating Career but 10 to 15 years of Revision and Improvement? Jocelyn Jane Cox In Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice, Jocelyn Jane Cox shares with her y…

Let's compare writing to... competitive ice skating! (And birth and death) @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social to @dianegotauthor.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social inc @vineleavespress.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m... #writinglife #memoir #lifewriting #skywriters

How I Successfully Restored My Facebook Account (and learned I needed a new community) By Allison K Williams Did you miss me? For 5 months, I was off Facebook, my account disabled in a worldwide, AI-driven “crackdown” on rule-breakers, pornographers and hackers, Meta’s attempt to sho…

A cautionary tale about where we make our online communities - how @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social finally restored her Facebook account and what she's now doing differently brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/n... @dintywmoore.bsky.social #writinglife #writingcommunity #authorlife #skywriters

"Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please ... tell us something that will save us from ourselves." ~ Alan Watts

The Art of Germination: Letting Your Creative Work Rest By Kate Meadows As writers, we pour everything we have into our creative work. We tend to it. We sit with it. We fight with it. We ask questions of it. But there is one simple, yet counterintuitive…

'A sort of magic takes place during a period of dormancy.' How that can happen for your writing @KateMeadows at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/t... #writingcommunity #writingtips #creativewriting #lifewriting #skywriters

“We may believe that only certain conditions will make us happy. But ... the conditions for happiness are already there, available inside and around us. We have eyes that can see, legs that can walk, lungs that can breathe.” ~ Thich Nhất Hanh

"The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it’s to imagine what is possible." ~ bell hooks

"I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that’s the job of art.” ~ Andre Dubus III

Conversion Block: When It’s OK to Quit Your Book By Mary Hannah Terzino I type this from a writing residency in rural northwest Indiana. Two-lane roads bisect the cornfields, rolling around red barns and white sheds with peeling paint and creepin…

Writing is exploration. Sometimes a particular path leads you to a brick wall you can't get beyond. Why that's okay. @MaryHannahTerzino at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/c... #writingcommunity #slowliving #cnf #essays #writinglife #authorlife #skywriters

What Is Creative About Creative Nonfiction? A Lighthearted Animation The term Creative Nonfiction has always been a conundrum to some folks. “How can it be nonfiction if it is creative?” Well, simply put, CNF is true (to the best…

Creative Nonfiction -- the term that continues to confuse. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/w...

“Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.” ~ Julia Cameron,

“I don't know what it's like inside you and you don't know what it's like inside me. A great book allows me to leap over that wall..." ~ David Foster Wallace

How to Embrace Stovetop ADHD in Our Writing Kitchens By Laura Zinn Fromm Two days ago, I nudged/nagged a student to turn work in. Our writing workshop meets Thursdays at noon. The deadline for submitting is Tuesday at noon. I emailed the student on T…

The distractible writer's guide to getting things finished (I know this feeling too) @laurazinnfromm.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/h... #writinglife #authorcommunity #lifewriting #skywriters

"Sentences are the bricks as well as the mortar, the motor as well as the fuel. They are the cells, the individual stitches. Their nature is at once solitary and social. Sentences establish tone, and set the pace. One in front of the other marks the way." ~ Jhumpa Lahiri

My Life Is a Knot, I Can Love the Knot: Reflections on Narrative and Nonfiction By Kathryn Nuernberger Be forewarned, I tell my creative nonfiction students, I don’t know how to write stories, I only know how to write knots. I tug on every thread a subject has to offer. Ideall…

On knots and trying to make sense of life - @katnuernberger.bsky.social on @coriwinrock.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/l... #writingcommunity #cnf #memoir #authorlife #writinglife #lifewriting #skywriters

W/thanks to @maorthofer.bsky.social, @insidehighered.com, @dintywmoore.bsky.social, @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social, et al.

"The problem we’re up against, as writers and people alive in this world is that everything does not happen for a reason, it just happens." ~ Kathryn Nuernberger / @katnuernberger.bsky.social