The Brevity Blog

How to Date a Writer

Three Is the Magic Number

Learning About Neurodivergence Transformed My Writing Process

Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice

How I Successfully Restored My Facebook Account (and learned I needed a new community)

The Art of Germination: Letting Your Creative Work Rest

Writing That Endures—It’s All in the Craft

Memoir in Poetry: Writing with T.S. Eliot During Uncertainty and Chaos

What Is Creative About Creative Nonfiction?

Conversion Block: When It’s OK to Quit Your Book

How to Embrace Stovetop ADHD in Our Writing Kitchens

My Life Is a Knot, I Can Love the Knot: Reflections on Narrative and Nonfiction

Art and Resistance and Parenting

Successfully Selling Memoir: It’s About the Reader

Tiny True Stories: How Micro Memoirs Make Us Better Writers

The Essay: Tradition & The Individual Talent

Nice Work. Please Finish: Using Storytelling to Define Your Digital Identity

The Pride, the Pain, the Love, and the Grit: On Writing and Gymnastics

Get Smart About Your Writing Education

A Writing Retreat with Inspiration, Hard Lessons, and Plenty of Cheese

Don’t Ask Readers to Cry for a Stranger (‘Cause They Won’t)

So, Publishing Your First Book Didn’t Change Your Life….

Reconstruction: Writing the Unknown As If It’s Real Makes Stronger Scenes

A Heroine’s Journey: When Your Story Doesn’t Fit the Standard Memoir Structure

A Place of Healing: Finding the Right Words In an Unright Moment

Writing from the Wound: Leaving Room for Raw Urgency