Blog | Erin Dionne

Quarterly Writing Update

Last year, I began chronicling my mindset shift/strategy shift of "writing by the numbers." If you want to read about that, you can...

2022 Word: Family

First, you need to know that this word came to me on its own, in early December. I started thinking about 2022, and it was the first...

Obit: Grafton, Good Dog

Grafton, Good Dog September 27, 2005--January 2, 2022 Grafton the Good Dog joined us on March 27, 2006, care of Save A Dog, Inc....

Investing in 2021

It's time for my annual wrap up and reflection. My guiding word for 2021 was "invest." As the pandemic droned on, I wanted to put my...

Writing By Quarters: Q3 Results

As I've detailed in previous posts, this year I'm working with my writing on a quarterly basis. I set goals for how many days I want...

5 Things on a Friday

Back in the LiveJournal days, we bloggers did a feature called "Five Things on a Friday". I'm feeling that today. Here are my five...

A (Little More Than) Mid-Year Review: Finding the Joy Again

My critique group met last week, and we paused our regularly-scheduled reviews of one another’s work to take stock of how we were doing...

Writing by Quarters: Q2 Results

As seen in this post, I shifted how I approached my writing life in 2021. I'm setting goals per quarter, and since yesterday was the last...

Riding the Monster: Creativity & Internal Editors

Friends, do you know this monster? It's the one that sneaks up behind you, a cold claw on your shoulder, hot breath in your ear, and...

Writing by Quarters: Q1 Results

I decided that I would reorganize my creative life in 2021, after struggling so much during the early part of the pandemic. I broke this...