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It’s Work in Progress Wednesday, June 2025! Let’s All Share What We’re Writing!

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Bryn Donovan

Welcome to another Work in Progress Wednesday! I hope the summer is treating you right so far! (And if not, it’s always fine to declare a do-over today. 🙂 ) Before we get started, I’m going to ask you for a favor. Will you please add my forthcoming novel, Her Time Traveling Duke, to your Goodreads “to be read” list?

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Writing Matters 34 Comments

Surprise! I’m Releasing Two Books Today, and You HAVE to See The Book Covers!

Posted on June 3, 2025 by Bryn Donovan

Two of my books are back out in the world…under different pen names!  One of them is a bestselling clean and wholesome contemporary romance, under my legal name, Stacey Donovan. One of them is a spicy historical romance, under my usual pen name, Bryn Donovan. These books were originally published by other publishers, but the rights have returned to me.

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Work in Progress Wednesday, May 2025! Let’s Share Our Writing!

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Bryn Donovan

Yay, it’s time for another Work in Progress Wednesday! It’s the first Wednesday of the month, so I’m sharing a snippet of what I’m working on, and you can do the same. If you don’t want to miss future WIP Wednesdays, be sure you’re subscribed to the blog in the upper lefthand corner. By the way, your content on this

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19 May Writing Prompts!

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Bryn Donovan

Happy May Day! Let’s start the brand-new month with some brand-new May writing prompts! Guys, my April had some challenges! The copy edits on my book were tougher than I expected. We had a couple of big snarls with doing our taxes. My husband got COVID (though I managed to avoid it). Also on the medical front, bills that we

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A Lovely Author Event…and Remembering a Rough One

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Bryn Donovan

I really love doing author events. I am one of those rare writers who’s an extrovert, and to me, there’s almost nothing more fun than getting to connect with readers and book lovers—and sometimes, other writers, too. I always show up super early and say hi to the organizer so they have one less thing to worry about. Most writers,

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33 Inciting Incident Examples

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Bryn Donovan

These inciting incident examples will hopefully give you some inspiration for the inciting incident in your own story!   But first, an ‘inciting incident’ definition, for those who need it! The inciting incident kicks the story into gear. It’s the event or choice that shakes up the main character’s normal life.  If you’re writing a novel, with the possible exception

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Happy Work in Progress Wednesday! Let’s All Share What We’re Writing!

Posted on April 3, 2025 by Bryn Donovan

I’m going to share something completely different today!  I was working on this new story yesterday, and I can’t remember when I’ve felt so inspired. Six hours or so flew by while I was making notes about scenes. It’s about a woman who had a close-knit friend group when she was in her mid-twenties, but it fell apart when they

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