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When you’re geeky, you don’t always think like the people around you or answer questions in the usual way. A writing class I took asked us newbie writers to tell the class a little bit about ourselves. Here’s how I answered that: I am a multi-cellular, hairless, short-snouted, large-brained bipedal omnivore, evolved over millions of […]… Continue reading A Geek Answers, “Who Am I?” — Today’s Author

When you’re geeky, you don’t always think like the people around you or answer questions in the usual way. A writing class I took asked us newbie writers to tell the class a little bit about ourselves. Here’s how I answered that: I am a multi-cellular, hairless, short-snouted, large-brained bipedal omnivore, evolved over millions of […]… Continue reading A Geek Answers, “Who Am I?” — Today’s Author

I run a series over on my blog, WordDreams, where I highlight a genre for each letter of the alphabet. Here’s the next in the series: The A to Z Challenge asks bloggers to post 26 articles on a themed topic. It’s supposed to be every day except Sundays during the month of April but […]… Continue reading Genres A to Z: O is for Owner’s Manual — Today’s Author

There are a good many things Indie writers and publishers have to be grateful for. Things we seem to have in common…apart, of course, from the abject poverty of living in unheated garrets whilst suffering for our art. (Look, we have an image to keep up, right?) Whilst I wait… and wait… and wait… I […]… Continue reading 10 Things for which the Indie Author is grateful — Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo

By Paul Skenazy Writing is an invitation to humility—you realize you’re on the wrong track, you’ve lost connection with a scene, an emotion, a voice. The return on that humility is when your imagination lets you slip into someone else’s skin. The tales you come up with tell the story you are trying to tell […]… Continue reading Thirteen Thoughts On Writing — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog

By D.A. Hickman Vast and unthinkable. Silent and timeless. A windswept terrain. This is grief. It’s also the Dakota prairie I grew up with. But I wasn’t fully aware of this curious pairing until I lost my son to suicide. When the final moment came, he’d already been plagued for years by treacherous life and […]… Continue reading Windswept Terrain: Finding a Way to Write About Grief — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog

By Paul Skenazy Writing is an invitation to humility—you realize you’re on the wrong track, you’ve lost connection with a scene, an emotion, a voice. The return on that humility is when your imagination lets you slip into someone else’s skin. The tales you come up with tell the story you are trying to tell […]… Continue reading Thirteen Thoughts On Writing — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog

By Kat Read “I just wrote it down, sent it out, and now I feel so much better. It was totally like therapy.” I get why people say that. In my personal essays, I write narratives that thread through my life, and sometimes that feels really cathartic and revelatory and all of the wonderful things […]… Continue reading Therapy As Writing — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog

By Nicole Walker It was after one of four Provost candidate presentations at Northern Arizona University that Julie Piering, Chair of the Philosophy Department, pulled me aside. She asked, have you heard of the Great Survival Debate, modeled after a long-standing tradition at the University of Montevallo in Central Alabama? I said, yes. I’m on […]… Continue reading Why English/Creative Writing is the Most Important Discipline Post the Apocalypse — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog

By Kathy Ewing “You can always just pretend to be writing,” my friends said when I told them about my upcoming adventure. To celebrate November, National Novel Writing Month, Appletree Books in my hometown of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, invited writers to sit inside the display window and write. I accepted the invitation. “You’ll be on […]… Continue reading Sitting in a Bookstore Window Writing about Sitting in a Bookstore Window Writing — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog