Happy Earth Day! I have a giveaway to celebrate at the end of this post. Earth Day is a great reminder to be more eco-conscious. Most of us want to make more “green” or environmental choices, and we want to know how to be more earth-friendly. However, it can be easy to get overwhelmed. [AdSense-B] For me, it
Author: Bryn Donovan
When I made my to-do list yesterday morning, I wrote down “blog about Paris trip.” I expected it to be a quick, lighthearted post about our vacation. Lighthearted, because so many people have already been to Paris, a city that seems to be the result of a centuries-long effort to create as many beautiful things as possible. What would I
Hi friends! How’s everyone doing? Good, I hope! WIP Wednesday is when we share excerpts of work in process. If you don’t have an excerpt you want to share right now, we’d still love to hear from you about how things are going (or not going) with your writing! We usually do this on first Wednesday of the month, but
A lot of writers struggle with describing settings. I’ve written before about how to describe settings and why it matters, but a few people have told me they’d like me to do some of my master lists for writers to help them out! I have a weird love for creating lists like this, so I’m happy to do it. “How
Updated for 2023. When I lived in Kansas, my husband and I had a flower garden. We planted all kinds of flowers, annuals and perennials. The spring and early summer flowers—tulips, peonies, irises—were lovely, but they didn’t bloom for long. I loved the garden in August, when the zinnias, black-eyed Susans, and Russian sage were in full force. A thunderstorm
Hi friends! I’m writing this post at SleuthFest, a terrific writers’ conference for mystery and thriller writers. As an acquiring editor, I’ve spent hours here hearing novel pitches and chatting with writers. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know I love talking with fiction writers about their projects, so I enjoyed it. Writing conferences often set up
My author blog changed my life, and it became a project and a passion unto itself. When writers I know consider starting a blog, I always encourage them to do it! However, people sometimes tell me they don’t know how to start a blog because they won’t have enough ideas for blog topics. And “What should I write about on