By Matthew Duffus I was packing for an Easter Break trip when the phone rang. Without Caller ID—this was in 2001, the age of landlines—I had no time to prepare for the voice of my thesis advisor, Barry Hannah. Even after two-plus years, he scared the hell out of me, no less because he was […]… Continue reading World’s Best Writing Advice — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
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On Loving People I’ve Never Met — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
By Kaia Solveig Preus At first, I was afraid to write my way back into my manuscript after it had been accepted for publication and had undergone its first round of edits. I worried that I had forgotten all of the facts that I had learned in order to write the book years before. My […]… Continue reading On Loving People I’ve Never Met — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
Show Me The Money (Or Not) — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
Finding out a literary journal’s taste is easy. Their website says right up front whether they want edgy flash fiction, genre-crossing lyric essays or formal poems. If they accept work via Submittable, their own website, or paper mail with a SASE. It’s easy to buy copies or subscribe to see if our work is “a […]… Continue reading Show Me The Money (Or Not) — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
Of Bloated Prose and Books That Should Have Been Blogs — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
By Cherone Duggan Books that should have been blogs. Blogs that should have been tweets. Tweets that should have been thoughts. Waffle-fed and fluff-padded, bloated prose waddles around every section of the written world. As does the well-worn writing advice to slim down our copy to skeletal leanness. “Omit needless words,” “Show don’t tell,” “Less […]… Continue reading Of Bloated Prose and Books That Should Have Been Blogs — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
No One Wants to Steal Your Book — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
You may have heard from a beginning writer, “What if an agent steals my idea?” Or “What if a publisher prints my book and sells it without paying me?” Or “What if someone pirates my e-book?” You may yourself have wondered, why is it customary not to copyright one’s work before beginning the submission process? […]… Continue reading No One Wants to Steal Your Book — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
The Write Stuff: On Pushcarts, Lorrie Moore, and Writing Past Sixty — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
By Cindy Sams A long teaching day nears its end when a buzz from the phone in my pocket grabs my attention. A covert glance at the screen reveals a text message from my MFA writing mentor at Reinhardt University in Waleska, GA. She announces, simply, “Congratulations!!!” What did I do? Attached to the text […]… Continue reading The Write Stuff: On Pushcarts, Lorrie Moore, and Writing Past Sixty — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
On Memoir Writing: Do We Have to Call It Therapy? — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
By Mary J. Breen I teach memoir classes with seniors. People who hear about these classes are forever telling me how much they approve. “Writing is such good therapy!” they say, one after another. But is it useful to call it therapy? I don’t think so, and I think it’s time we stopped. My students […]… Continue reading On Memoir Writing: Do We Have to Call It Therapy? — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
The Heart of a Story: Writing Toward Voice — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
By Marilyn Bousquin I Early in my writing journey—we’re talking 1980s—I took a creative writing class with a famous novelist professor. One day the class workshopped a story I’d written about an adolescent girl with anorexia. Lo and behold, my classmates liked it. One boy was so captivated by a scene of the protagonist puking […]… Continue reading The Heart of a Story: Writing Toward Voice — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
Writer Quotes: Orson Welles — The Official Website of Ryan Krol
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Writing Quotes: Ray Bradbury — The Official Website of Ryan Krol
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WILDsound Writing Festival 