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Celebrating Women’s History Month with Powerful First Lines

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First Lines is a blog series posted the first week of the month. This month celebrate Women’s History Month with titles listed as feminist. Will be hooked?

Published March 2, 2026
Categorized as Fantasy, First Lines, Reading, Science Fiction Tagged Lynette M. Burrows, non-fiction, quotes, reading

A Crisis Survival Guide for Creatives

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Whys and how creatives can take care of their highly sensitive selves during a time of crisis. The world needs creatives in times like these.

Published January 26, 2026
Categorized as Creativity, Health, Self-care Tagged creativity, highly sensitive people, Lynette M. Burrows, quotes

First Lines From the top 100 Dystopian Books

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This post is part of a monthly series that offers the first paragraphs of dystopian books currently in the top 100 dystopian novels on Amazon.

Published January 5, 2026
Categorized as Dystopian, First Lines, My Soul to Keep, Reading Tagged Lynette M. Burrows, quotes, Science Fiction

Sci-Fi and Fantasy First Lines That Will Give You Chills

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In October, many Americans celebrate all things spooky. So if you like stories that raise a chill bump or two & aren’t necessarily about ghosts, take a look.

Published October 6, 2025
Categorized as Dystopian, Fantasy, First Lines, Reading, Science Fiction Tagged Lynette M. Burrows, quotes

What False Comfort Zone Are You In?

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Lynette M. Burrows explores what false comfort zones are and steps you can take to push out the walls of your false comfort zone.

Published July 14, 2025
Categorized as Creativity, Inspiration and Motivation, Self-care Tagged creativity, false comfort zone, Lynette M. Burrows, psychology, quotes

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