Lynette M. Burrows
@lynettemburrows.bsky.social
Writer, Blogger, Creativity Advocate, and Yorkie Wrangler. Author of the Fellowship Dystopia series. https://lynettemburrows.com 👩🏻💻🪐📚🐾
October 4-10 is Banned Books Week. Support our freedom to read. Buy or borrow or read a banned book today. lynettemburrows.com/a-first-line...
A First Lines Post – Guess What These Books Have in Common - Lynette M. Burrows
In this collection of first lines, the books do not share a common genre or subject or trope. Can you guess what they have in common?
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#writers This is a thoughtful post about the kinds of #swag (giveaway items) we have on our tables at events. It gave me some great ideas I will implement next year. From #WritersInTheStormBlog writersinthestormblog.com/2026/09/what...
What Does Your Swag Say?
We love picking up swag, but how does swag reflect your brand when you're an author? Amy M. Reade shares some helpful suggestions.
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#OTD we celebrate National Public Lands Day on the Fourth Saturday of September, 9/26/26: The US has a number of truly wonderful #publiclands . Explore your nearby national parks, state forests, community green spaces. Volunteer to help clean, maintain, or restore these spaces. #ProtectOurParks!
#OTD September 25th is National Quesadilla Day. YUM! I know what I'm having for dinner. What are you enjoying tonight?
#BOTD 9/24/1943 in New Jersey, Linda Deutsch, an American trial #journalist for the AP, covered high-profile trials since the 1969 trial & conviction of Sirhan Sirhan, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin. She also covered trials of Michael Jackson, O. J. Simpson, & Charles Manson. #womenshistory
Now recovered enough from vacation to realize #BOTD September 23, 1838 in Homer, Ohio Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) was the 1st female #Presidential candidate. Her candidacy, not the most favorable, opened the doors for other #female candidates. #history lynettemburrows.com/the-first-fe...
The First Female Presidential Candidate Spent Election Day in Jail - Lynette M. Burrows
Fifty years before women could vote, Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) the first female Presidential candidate spent election day in jail.
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#OTD #NationalReadaBookDay Do you like to read with someone else? Personally, I prefer to read alone—fewer interruptions that way. I get grouchy when someone interrupts a good book! 🤓#reading #books
In one month, on Saturday October 3rd I'll be at two different book fests! From 9 am until 3:30 pm, I'll be at Heartland Book fest (see first comment). From 4pm until 9 pm, I'll be at the Boozy Bookfest (see second comment). Come to one or both! You'll met authors and I'll get to say hi to you!
We all have #dreams. Some dreams are meant to stay dreams. If it isn't a dream you want to keep in perpetual dreamland, "Don't follow your dreams. Chase them." And learn to enjoy the chase.🙂 #creatives #writers #writinglife
Me: turning very very slowly, reaching way around behind me to get a candid shot of Neo being cute. Neo stops what he's doing and looks up: I see you. Why do you try to sneak a picture? #dogsofBlueSky #dogsbeingdogs #yorkie See less
I don't know about you, but I've had plenty of opportunities to learn..."The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." Henry Ford
#BOTD On this day, September 2, 1838, Queen Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha of the Kamehameha Dynasty, the last Queen of #Hawaii was born #history #herstory lynettemburrows.com/a-woman-ahea...
A Woman Ahead of Her Time - Lynette M. Burrows
She was a woman ahead of her time, an author, a songwriter, a social justice advocate, an advocate for her culture, and the last and only Queen of Hawaii.
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#OTD It’s Emma M. Nut Day. Who the heck is Emma Nutt? She is unofficially the world’s first female telephone operator hired on this day, September 1, 1878 by Alexander Graham Bell himself. (Her sister became the second one.) #funfact #history #herstory time.com/4011936/emma...
Emma Nutt: The Woman Who Made History by Answering the Phone
Sept. 1, 1878: Emma Nutt becomes the first female telephone operator
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I can't begin to tell you how much fun I'm having on this new #WIP I am #writing. Take a #sneakpeek. #readers #spaceopera lynettemburrows.com/a-special-gl...
A Special Glimpse at New Series: Inspiration to Perspiration - Lynette M. Burrows
A nurse-turned-author offers a first-look at her newest WIP, a space opera meets medical drama series blending emergency medicine with space travel and aliens.
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#OTD #InternationalDayoftheDisappeared This day meant to increase awareness of this horror and through awareness decrease the incidents. I wrote this and what mothers did about it. Unfortunately the list of where this happens has grown. lynettemburrows.com/the-mad-moth...
The Mad Mothers Refuse to be Silent - Lynette M. Burrows
In 1977, fourteen mothers held a peaceful protest. They were called mad women, las locas. The mad mothers refuse to be silent to this day.
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It has been my honor to be theses good boys' human. #OTD, August 28th, on #RainbowBridgeRememberanceDay, I am remembering with fondness & little sadness. The boys in these photo were a mix of purebreds & rescued #dogs and all were spoiled & loved on for all their years with my family and me.
Love this post on Writers In The Storm! There's so many ways to make your #writinglife or any creative dream come true. #writers #creators writersinthestormblog.com/2026/08/buil...
Building a Writing Ecosystem | Writers In The Storm
As writers, we’ve been conditioned to think of our entire future as dependent upon the success of our books. What a nasty little trap.
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#NationalParkServiceFoundersDay I have had the absolute pleasure & privilege to visit many of our National Parks. Each has a special, breathtaking feature(s). They are #treasures for the plants, for the animals, & for the humans. Please, #preserve our #nationalparks! Image from DepositPhotos
#writinglife Drafting a story is fun, it's work, and it's more than being #creative. There is much the #writer needs to nail. Arguably 2nd only to the beginning in importance, is the end. For #writingtips on how to write an ending that makes devoted readers. lynettemburrows.com/how-to-craft...
How to Craft Powerful Story Endings & Mistakes to Avoid - Lynette M. Burrows
Learn how to write story endings readers won't throw across the room. Master the third plot point, climax, and crisis decision in this fiction writing guide.
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#OTD August 23 is #FindYourInnerNerdDay a celebration I can really get behind—er, get in front of—um join? I know. Embrace! #nerds #readers #writers Unite! Lol image credit: Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay
#OTD August 22 is #Folklore Day. Folklore has always fascinated me. So when I first heard of the Foxfire books, I bought them.Then, years later, they became an important resource for the writing of My Soul to Keep, Book One of the Fellowship Dystopia. lynettemburrows.com/a-frustrated...
A Frustrated High School Teacher and Disinterested Students Created a Legacy -
A frustrated high school teacher and disinterested students created a magazine, an anthology, a teaching method, and a legacy. And inspired a character.
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#Reflections of a #dog chewing his bone. Chomp-chomp. Just what a writer needs to hear when she's trying to create new worlds where man has never gone. 🤣 #dogsofbluesky
Looking for fun? #Free at the Central Library downtown #KC! Speakers, workshops, & #books to buy. See me: "The End of the World (But Make It Weird)-3 authors prove the most unsettling social commentary arrives with a sidekick. Sat, Oct 3 12:45 to 1:30 PM! www.heartlandbookfest.org/schedule
Schedule | Heartland Book Festival
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Some doggy is getting extra "good boi" praise today.
#Writing an alternate history dystopian (The Fellowship Dystopia Series) allowed me to play with real and imagined history. But what surprised me was that some things that I knew were a part of our history, other folks didn’t. lynettemburrows.com/the-forgotte...
The Forgotten History of the Credit Card - Lynette M. Burrows
A beta reader questioned: Did credit cards exist in the 60’s? I found the forgotten history of the credit card fascinating. I hope you do, too.
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#Women have been part of #resistance and war. #WandaGertz is one example. Her story is sparse. She was too busy fighting the enemy and trying to get women soldiers to be recognized and accepted. lynettemburrows.com/polands-grea...
Poland’s Greatest Female War Hero, Disguised as a Man - Lynette M. Burrows
From WWI battlefields to Nazi resistance: how Wanda Gertz, a woman of courage disguised as a man, and Poland's greatest female war hero.
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#OTD Since 1982 we observe #NavajoCodeTalkersDay in honor of >400 Navajo Marines who created an unbreakable code during WWII. In 2001 Congressional Silver Medals were awarded to survivors, their spouses or children. Sadly, many had already passed. Statute erected in 2010 at Window Rock, AZ.
