Love this. It's so true about doing the work to take our stories to their essence. It makes them so much stronger & more captivating. Great piece, Abby Alten Schwartz! Dinty W. Moore Allison K Williams #writingcommunity

"Sometimes it's worth it to wait--if I ever have a piece that's right for The Sun, who discourage simultaneous submissions, I'll cheerfully print it out, stamp it, send it, and put it out of my mind for six months." brevity.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/jum…

Rejections and Acceptance: On Taking Time to Write About Our Grief ift.tt/QGuvjh9

"Line-jumping is a little scary. We've all learned that success comes from doggedly moving up one step at a time, ticking the boxes, supporting our community--not cutting in front of everyone else." brevity.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/jum…

"But we're grown-ups now, and standing in line is a choice. There's no amusement-park snake line with Success at the end." brevity.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/jum…

Serious question: what's stopping you from reading? We can't read right now because we're cooking, cleaning, organising, and welcoming people (so they can read and write). Book a stay with us - we take care of 'the rest of the stuff'. 🙂 We'll pick up a book later tonight...

Join us for cowriting on Zoom, live and FREE! Link in my bio

"One day you’re going to publish a book and it would be nice to tell people about it all at once, but what the heck do you do to get started? How do you grow your audience, whoever that’s supposed to be?" ~ Allison K Williams brevity.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/wri…

Writing Regularly: The Gift of Mailing Lists (and Substacks, and Blogs…) ift.tt/Y1hnTqs

When we say we want weird stuff, we mean it. Send us the writing that made you uncomfortable when you wrote it. We will attend to it with care.

"Take a look at your essay, or your manuscript. What's the stunning conclusion, the revelation, the connection the reader makes at the last minute? Go back and find the clues." brevity.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/its…

That is a cousin to “breasted boobily” right there. Welp, we all know what AI to definitely not use now.

Breakdancers, Girl Scouts and French cats in my newsletter this week - as well as how I knew who I was meant to be. view.flodesk.com/emails/65dc394… (no paywall or subscription needed!)

"The reader only gets what's on the page. Give them enough cards and top hats to be in on the illusion, too." brevity.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/its…

Is blogging dead? Should you start a newsletter/Substack? 1, No, 2 Yes - and here's why. Allison K Williams at Dinty W. Moore brevity.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/wri… #writingcommunity #authorlife #creativewriting

"Don’t overcome your fear of writing your truth in spite of potential fallout. Keep that fear, because you need it." ~ Sarah Einstein

Your Body, Your Wunderkammer ift.tt/fbsZQUT

“I didn’t need to travel far to discover my story—it was stored safely inside my body. I held the key to this vast, private, and exclusive archive—I just needed to open the door.” ~ Nina B Lichtenstein brevity.wordpress.com/2024/09/06/wri…

Her comics make me snarf every time.

"We're sick to death of the details. We're afraid to be too obvious, to overwrite, make our work too simple or somehow un-literary by speaking plainly." brevity.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/its…