Shaula Evans

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About Shaula Evans

I'm a writer, curator, and community builder. I'm also a passionate advocate of increasing diversity in stories and supporting under-represented writers. I have more than a decade of experience in offering online workshops to support writers in developing their voices and telling their own stories. To find out more about me, read my full bio.

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Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 21 17 comments

This entry was posted in Weekly Check In on May 27, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 1, 2015)

Thanks to a holiday long weekend that ran a little extra long, this week’s check in comes later than usual, with my apologies. But it’s […]

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Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 20 6 comments

This entry was posted in Weekly Check In on May 18, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on May 27, 2015)

1. Let us know how you fared with last week’s writing goals (whether you shared them with us here or not). 2. Share your goals […]

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Writing Empathy

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged empathy on May 14, 2015 by Shaula Evans

Stories are powerful tools for creating empathy. Let’s look at the idea of “writing empathy” as an inroad into story ideas. Think about a time […]

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Rewriting With The Surgical Drape Technique

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged rewriting on May 12, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on May 12, 2015)

When a character has surgery on TV, you know how the prep nurse always drapes them in sheets first so that only the area being […]

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Chinua Achebe: The Danger of Not Having Your Own Stories

This entry was posted in Diversity Quotes Writing and tagged Chinua Achebe on May 12, 2015 by Shaula Evans

“Then I grew older and began to read about adventures in which I didn’t know that I was supposed to be on the side of […]

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Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 19 23 comments

This entry was posted in Weekly Check In on May 11, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on May 18, 2015)

1. Let us know how you fared with last week’s writing goals (whether you shared them with us here or not). 2. Share your goals […]

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Beyond The Only One

This entry was posted in Diversity Writing and tagged diversity representation Shonda Rhimes writing strategies on May 6, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on May 6, 2015)

At the very end, I read [Shonda Rimes] an audience question that said something like, “How do you think your shows have changed the position […]

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The Axe for the Frozen Sea Inside Us 5 comments

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged Franz Kafka on May 5, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on May 5, 2015)

We need the books that affect us like disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being […]

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Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 18 17 comments

This entry was posted in Weekly Check In on May 3, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on May 11, 2015)

Standard Weekly Check In 1. Let us know how you fared with last week’s writing goals (whether you shared them with us here or not). […]

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