Vancouver Writers

Here’s what’s coming up at

Cover to Cover Books, 1817 Main Street, Vancouver, Washington (not Vancouver, BC a/k/a Vansterdam or Brollywood) :

Saturday, October 4, 5:00 – 6:30 PM
Blending the actual and the fictional. Vancouver mystery author Sheila Simonson discusses the problems of setting a fictional tale in a real place and how she solved them in her latest mystery, Buffalo Bill’s Defunct.

Saturday, November 1, 5:00 – 6:30 PM

Poets Christopher Luna, Diane Cammer, Eileen Elliott, Jim Martin, and Toni Partington discuss projective verse and investigative poetry critiques, how to do them right, and how to form your own critique group.

Saturday, December 6, 5:00-6:30 PM
Editor and writing coach Elizabeth Lyon, author of Manuscript Makeover, returns (with prizes) to play “Stump the Editor.” Bring your questions about story structure, plotting, characterization, what works, what doesn’t, why, and why not.

Two other items of note:

Carolyn Rose’s Creating Complex Characters and Dynamic Description Course

Carolyn’s six-week class, Creating Complex Characters and Dynamic Description for Deeper Fiction starts on Tuesday, September 30 through Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education – 360-992-2939 – http://at-campus.net/clark I’ve taken three of the courses Carolyn gave at Clark College in Vancouver, WA. I took away a lot of good ideas and techniques. To see some of those ideas you might check my post on Carolyn’s list of Top Ten Mistakes Newbie Novelists Make.

(Tentative) Saturday, December 6 Elizabeth Lyon Workshop (Tentative)

If you are interested in Elizabeth Lyon is putting on a four-hour workshop on Saturday 12/6 in a meeting room at the Marshall Center called Revise, Revise, Revise, contact Carolyn Rose and let her know if you are interested in this from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or noon to 4 p.m. on that date.

She estimates it needs about 20 people to make the The workshop is a go and costs to be around $45. The workshop would is expected to cover scene structure, the importance of subtext and movement (not the same as action), characterization, voice, and style.