Bryn Donovan

WIP Wednesday – Share What YOU Are Up To!

Hi friends! Welcome to WIP Wednesday, where I share a little bit of work in progress and invite you to share an excerpt of your own work in the comments section. If you’re new, here are the rules! If you do this all the time, … Continue Reading →

Friendly Reminder: Tomorrow is WIP Wednesday!

The WIP Wednesday regulars already know this! But tomorrow is the first Wednesday of the month, and that makes it WIP Wednesday—”Work In Progress” Wednesday. I always share an excerpt of something I’m working on, and I invite you to do the same thing in … Continue Reading →

Beyond Valentine’s Day: Holidays About Love and Friendship Around the World

Did you know that in Finland in the 1980s, they rebranded Valentine’s Day so no one would feel left out? They call it Ystävänpäivä, or Day of the Friends, and it’s mostly about friendship. In the U.S., people usually think of Valentine’s Day as a romantic … Continue Reading →

The Past Is No Longer The Past

When I do the treadmill in the little exercise room in our apartment building, I watch a couple episodes of Friends on my iPad. The only way I could be more basic is if I were doing this while drinking a pumpkin spice latte. But … Continue Reading →

January 2019 Recommended Reads

Hey friends! I set a goal on Goodreads of reading 52 books in 2019. I’ve got to admit it’s not a goal I’ll feel terrible about if I don’t hit it, for three reasons: I read so much in my day job that reading a … Continue Reading →

How to Write Flashbacks (So They Aren’t Clunky)

Hey there! I bet many of you will already know all about writing flashbacks. But when I first started writing stories, I was confounded by how exactly to handle past tense and past present tense in flashbacks and other passages about things that happened prior … Continue Reading →

Beautiful French Phrases for Tattoos, Instagram, Facebook…or Just to Inspire You

Hey, friends! Many people have enjoyed my post about Badass Latin Phrases for Tattoos and now that I’ve started to study French, I thought I’d share some French inspirational and motivational sayings about love, life, and more. They include common phrases, mottos from old coats of arms, … Continue Reading →