Instructor: Leslie Hall
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026
Type: Zoom
Duration: 1 Hour
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $15; Non-Member – $20

Do you have trouble producing new story ideas? Perhaps you start ideas but bored part-way through or can’t finish. This workshop will help you work through ways to generate ideas that excite you and have enough detail to become a finished work. Will discuss testing story ideas, managing writers block, sustaining the muse, and organizing your work process. Get the jump start you need to start writing!

Students will learn:

• How to brainstorm new ideas and resources to support the process
• How to sketch out their new idea and build on character and theme
  How to determine what format where their idea might fit best
• Several outlining techniques

About the Instructor:

[Leslie J. Hall the author of the Kaitlyn Willis Road Signs mysteries, a humorous, PG-rated, amateur sleuth series starring a NW code enforcement officer. Her short story, A Strange Rain, will appear in Better Off Dead: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Elton John and Bernie Taupin anthology December 2025. She also writes women’s fiction. Leslie loves to speak, teach, and share her passion for writing with others. When not writing, Leslie volunteers for writer-related events, leads Write Night (a weekly virtual facilitated critique group), teaches beginning writing at community colleges in continuing ed, and when not doing all of that, hangs out at the beach with a book (or 2!). She lives in Bremerton, WA with her husband and her pandemic rescue cat, Mia.

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