Free Writing Workshops
Join Muse & Margins for free online writing workshops on storytelling, character development, editing, publishing, and book marketing. Each hands-on session focuses on two topics, includes practical activities, and lasts 90 minutes or less. Writers at every stage are welcome, whether you’re working toward independent or traditional publication.
Explore Our Workshops
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When the Plan Goes Wrong
Develop attempts, setbacks, and escalating complications that force your protagonist to adapt.
Developing Attempts and Setbacks
Escalating the Conflict
Writing a Satisfying Ending
Deliver a climax and aftermath that follow from your story’s choices and promises.
Resolving the Central Conflict Through the Climax
Showing Meaningful Aftermath in the Resolution
Strengthening the Middle
Give the middle of your story a consequential shift that changes the protagonist’s approach.
Creating a Midpoint That Changes the Story
Changing the Protagonist’s Approach After the Midpoint
Making Plot Events Connect
Connect plot developments through consequences and decisions that influence what happens next.
Building Cause-and-Effect Progression
Making Character Decisions Drive New Developments
Building Toward the Climax
Bring your conflict to a crisis and develop the decision that launches the final confrontation.
Bringing the Central Conflict to a Crisis
Developing the Choice That Launches the Final Confrontation
Weaving in Subplots
Develop subplots that progress in their own right while contributing to the main story.
Giving a Subplot Its Own Progression
Connecting It Meaningfully to the Main Story