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
Browse our workshop topics below. Dates are announced one workshop at a time. Want to hear when a favorite is scheduled? Use the Notify Me button above to select your interests.
Writing a Query Letter
Write a focused story pitch supported by clear book details and a relevant author bio.
Building the Story Pitch
Writing the Housekeeping Details and Author Bio
Revising Your Query and Synopsis
Revise a confusing query or synopsis to restore clarity, motivation, and cause and effect.
Fixing a Query That Isn’t Communicating the Story
Repairing a Synopsis That Reads Like a List of Events
Writing a Synopsis
Condense the essential storyline, character progression, and ending into a clear synopsis.
Selecting the Essential Causal Storyline
Showing the Ending and Character Progression Concisely
Building Relationship Dynamics
Develop relationships shaped by individual wants, shifting power, and personal boundaries.
Establishing What Characters Want From Each Other
Developing Power, Dependence, and Boundaries
Choosing Comparable Titles
Choose useful comparable titles and explain both the connection and your book’s distinctive appeal.
Identifying Meaningful Points of Comparison
Explaining Where Your Book Fits and What Distinguishes It
Creating Chemistry
Make attraction feel specific to your characters and visible in their interactions.
Building Specific Reasons for Attraction
Writing Attraction Through Attention, Reactions, and Interaction