The World Needs More Amazing Writers
I’m here to help You become an Amazing Creative Writer
Hi, I’m Paulette Boudreaux, an award winning, published author and experienced creative writing teacher. My knowledge of the skills and craft a good fiction writer or creative nonfiction writers needs is deep and wide.
I can help you unlock the power of your words, unleash your potential as a writer, and structure your work to make your stories engaging and compelling!
Whether you’re making up stories or writing stories from your real life, the success of each piece comes down to the Art of the Story.
Humans have practiced the art of storytelling for centuries. We tell each other stories for all kinds of reasons—to entertain, to inform, to caution, to confess, to teach, to amuse, to share experiences, to gain insight, to preserve and pass along personal and communal history, and so on. Readers respond to well-told stories. They have the power to inspire and connect people across time and cultures.
The ability to write dynamic and captivating stories is an incredible tool. However, gathering the right words in the most powerful order requires well-honed skills and the expert application of craft.
As a published novelist with a background in journalism and public relations, plus more than 25 years experience teaching writing at the college and university level, I can help you acquire the writing skills and craft you need.
In my small-group, face-to-face writing workshops, and one-on-one writer coaching sessions, I can help you become an amazing writer!
What’s your Creative Writing Goal?
Do You Want to Become a Fiction Writer?
Are you a storyteller who likes to make up stories? Have you thought you would like to write some of your stories down to share with others?
Writing fictional stories can be incredibly rewarding and fulfilling. It lets you explore the depths of your imagination to express complex, or simple themes, opinions, and ideas that capture the essence of the human experience in ways that resonates with readers.
Writing fiction also gives you an opportunity to step outside your reality and discover new possibilities. You can tap into your unique voice as a writer and write great stories that have a lasting impact on readers.
Embrace the power of storytelling. Take one of my workshops and learn to craft your own extraordinary stories to share with the world.
Are You a Fiction Writer looking to Strengthen Your Writing?
Do you have a few Short Stories or a Novel in Progress you think needs fine-tuning?
A writing workshop offers invaluable guidance, inspiration, and growth opportunities for new and experienced novelists and short story writers alike.
One of the greatest advantages of a good writing workshop is a supportive and constructive environment to get feedback on your work. You get diverse perspectives, fresh insights, help uncovering blind spots in your storytelling, and acknowledgement of what you’re doing well. In my workshops, you also receive instructions for crafting effective fiction, developing dynamic and engaging stories, and editing your own work.
Do You Want to Write Stories from Real Life?
Are you considering writing from your own life experiences—a memoir perhaps, or some personal essays?
Each of us has experiences that helped shape us, and because humans are born storytellers, we tend to create stories for ourselves about our influential experiences.
It’s natural to want to capture the essence of those experiences and share them with others because we connect through our stories. Writing memoir or personal essays is an excellent avenue for sharing.
Writing stories from your real life also sets you on a journey of self-reflection and self-discovery that is transformative. If you’re ready for this profound journey, take one of my Creative Nonfiction workshops.
Regardless of your Goal
Join me for one of my Transformative Writing Workshops
Learn to use your imagination and the best narrative craft techniques to create literary magic!
Fiction Workshop I
Beginning Fiction Writing
Write your own stories.
Do you have a creative mind that likes to make up stories about people, places, things, ideas? Have you considered writing out the stories that come into your head? Are you ready to learn fiction writing techniques—the craft that will make your stories come to life?
Maybe you just want to explore the possibility of becoming a fiction writer? You’re not sure if fiction writer is the direction you want to go, but you’re open to learning more about the writing life and how to tell a good story that people will want to read.
Either way, this workshop is for you.
In the personal, small group setting of Beginning Fiction Writing, You can learn the basics of written storytelling, expand your creative imagination, find your fiction writing voice, and your rhythm as a fiction writer.
Fiction Workshop II
Advanced Fiction Writing
Your next chapter begins here!
Do you already have a foundational understanding of the narrative elements of fiction? Perhaps you have a few short stories you have been working on, or you have a novel in progress, or you took my Fiction Workshop I and now you’re ready to move to the next level.
You want to strengthen what you are already doing. If you are like me, and most of the other writers I know, after working on any piece of writing for a while, it becomes difficult to spot any problem areas. We need more eyes on our work to help us see it more completely. Also, because writing is a solitary affair, it can be lonely. Sometimes it’s good to be in the presence of other writers.
This small-group Advanced Fiction Writing workshop is a great place for you to join a community of writers and truly transform your writing to become the amazing writer you want to be.
Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Writing Memoirs and Personal Essays
You have a story. It’s yours. Only you can tell it. Are you ready? In this workshop you can find out.
Reflecting on your real life to produce Creative Nonfiction such as a memoir or personal narrative essays is transformative.
In both the memoir and the personal narrative essay, you embrace the power of fiction storytelling to craft unique stories based on your truth. Storytelling craft married to real life events is a winning combination.
Writing a memoir allows you to review your life's greatest moments, lessons learned, and achievements to gain insight and cull what is valuable from the past. It frees you to move forward in life with less baggage. Personal essays spotlight specific moments from your life to share insights and observations.
If you’re ready to embark on a transformative journey and create a legacy, this workshop is for you!
