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Finding Voice and Style In Puyallup… For Writers

Nov 15, 2025 | Finding Voice and Style, NEA Big Read Program, Presentations

Had an enlightening time delivering my workshop on Finding Your Unique Voice and Style in Your Writing Sunday November...

Worldbuilding for Geeks And Gamers: Sunday November 16 at the Parkland/Spanaway Library

Nov 14, 2025 | Editing Hints for Authors, Workshops, Worldbuilding for Geeks and Gamers

How worlds and universes can be created and how many elements are common in any medium a writer works in.

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We are all other: a POV checklist

Aug 10, 2021 | Business, Editing, Editing Hints for Authors, Point of View (POV)

Every character has wants or desires that echo ours — even when they’re different from us! Use this checklist to flesh out your characters.

100 Writing Days of Summer Starts June 21

Jun 16, 2021 | 100 Writing Days of Summer, Eilis Flynn, Writers' Conferences

Want to write a novel or a memoir by Labor Day?

100 Writing Days of Summer: Join Me in a Summer Writing Program and Heat Up Your Work in Progress

Jun 7, 2021 | 100 Writing Days of Summer, Business, Eilis Flynn, Writers' Conferences

Would you like to be writing a novel or memoir this...

The Story Behind the Story: The Grain Merchant by Zara Altair

Jun 2, 2021 | The Story Behind the Story, Zara Altair

Zara Altair has created a protagonist who lives much longer ago and farther away than mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles or Cabot Cove. How does that sort of hero come to be? How different are his life and the murders he must solve from what is ordinary to us?