I’ve spent a lot of my life finding better ways to say things.freelance writer voice actor

About Me

I'm Raina Boykin, a writer, copywriter, storyteller, and developing voice actor based in Vancouver, Washington.
My path here hasn't exactly followed a straight line.
I've spent more than 20 years working across operations, management, training, administration, production, and creative work. On paper, those jobs can look very different from one another. In practice, I kept finding myself drawn to the same part of them: communication.
I wrote and improved training materials, I explained processes to people who needed to actually use them, I worked with internal communications, documentation, contracts, video content, and business information where clarity mattered. I caught inconsistencies, reorganized information, and found myself looking at sentences and thinking, There's a better way to say that.
Eventually, I realized that wasn't just something I happened to be good at. It was the part I genuinely enjoyed, writing gave me somewhere to put that.freelance writer voice actor
 
Sometimes that means writing something from scratch.
Sometimes it means taking something stiff, repetitive, confusing, or AI-generated and figuring out how to make it sound human again.
And sometimes there doesn't need to be a product to sell at all...
 
Sometimes I just want to tell a story.
And then there's the kind of writing I do simply because I love it.
Creative writing gives me room to explore the things that don't necessarily belong in a landing page.
I love horror, dark fantasy, mystery, complicated characters, unsettling ideas, and stories where something feels wrong before you can quite explain why. I'm interested in atmosphere and worldbuilding, but I'm even more interested in the people moving through those worlds—the decisions they make, the things they hide, and all the ways perfectly reasonable choices can go spectacularly wrong.
 
I tend to gravitate toward characters who aren't easily divided into heroes and villains. I like tension that has time to build. I like details that seem unimportant until they aren't.
And I want the people in my stories to sound like people.
They interrupt. They misunderstand each other. They don't always say exactly what they're feeling. They make mistakes. Sometimes they make very large mistakes.
 
Those are usually the interesting ones.
 
Then I discovered how much I love working with vocal narration itself.
I've always paid attention to the way people sound, their accents, cadence, pronunciation, vocal placement, rhythm, pitch, and the tiny habits that make one person's speech recognizable from another's.
 
When I listen to a performance, I don't only hear the melody or the words. I notice how they're being delivered.
That fascination has become the foundation of the voice-acting and narration side of RainaWrites.
 
I'm particularly interested in vocal transformation: changing pitch while preserving a character's cadence and personality, shifting vocal texture, matching styles of delivery, experimenting with accents and speech patterns, and discovering how far I can move away from my natural speaking voice while still making the result feel believable.
I think of it as being something of a vocal chameleon.
 
Right now, I'm actively developing that ability into professional voice-over work through practice, recording, character development, narration, and building a growing library of voice samples.
I'm especially drawn to character work, audiobooks, narration, horror, fantasy, audio fiction, and any project where a voice gets to do more than simply read the words on the page.
Because there's a big difference between reading a line and understanding why a character said it. That's the part I'm interested in.
Voice acting makes me hear my writing differently. I notice where someone would naturally pause, which words deserve emphasis, when dialogue sounds written instead of spoken, and when a sentence looks perfectly fine on a page but becomes awkward the second it's said aloud.
Writing does the same thing for performance. Instead of looking at a line as something to recite, I find myself asking who is speaking, what they want, who they're talking to, what they're not saying, and why these particular words came out.
In both cases, I'm looking for the voice that belongs there.

So, what exactly is RainaWrites?
It's where all of those things finally get to live in the same place.
It's copywriting when the words need to accomplish something.
It's creative writing when they need to tell a story.
It's editing when the right idea is already there but the language hasn't caught up with it yet,
And it's voice acting when the words are ready to stop sitting quietly on the page.
 
My career didn't begin with the title "writer" or "voice actor."
It began with years of learning how people communicate, how easily information can become confusing, how much tone matters, and how often the difference between something that works and something that doesn't comes down to the way it was communicated.
It just took me a while to realize I wanted to build something around that.
Now I am.
Welcome to RainaWrites.