I’ve always enjoyed writing and spent many hours in school composing stories and poems - but it wasn’t until I was an adult that I took formal training.

My goal was to be a fiction writer - romance, fantasy, adventure - I thought I could do it all - until my writing coaches told me to start studying my craft! I did. I’ve taken countless fiction writing courses, as well as a technical writing certificate program, copywriting courses, and editing courses. These helped me find the career in writing I wanted.

During these years, I was asked to judge competitions for the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and the Canadian Authors’ Association (CAA). I was a senior judge for the CAA’s “Winners’ Circle International Short Story Competition” for five years. Judging is one of the best ways to polish your own writing skills because you have to dig deep to help the contestant and to see what’s good, what isn’t working - and why - and be able to explain it in a way that helps that writer learn.

The editing program I took also helped me write. When you look at a piece of writing the way an editor approaches it, your insight is different. The trick is to be able to distance yourself from your own writing to be able to do that.

Though I’ve run a technical writing, copywriting, and editing business for eleven years, I launched Paula Wheeler Creative Studios as a place to help other writers polish their skills and work on their manuscripts.

Keep writing - and let me know how I can help.

EAC - Editors Association of Canada

CANSCAIP - Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers

CCBC - Canadian Children’s Book Centre

SCBWI - Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

RWA - Romance Writers of America

NAPP - National Association of Photoshop Professionals




“I highly recommend Ms. Wheeler to anyone looking to revise and improve their writing so they can meet editors’ expectations and greatly improve their chances for publication.” - Luba S. (SCBWI)

Fantasy - Romance - Children’s (Middle grade - Teen) - Sci Fi - Mainstream - Literary - Non Fiction