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.
Earning Emotional Intimacy
Build emotional closeness through experiences that develop trust and invite vulnerability.
Developing Trust Through Shared Experiences
Using Vulnerability to Change a Relationship
Writing Friendships That Matter
Create friendships with shared investment, individual needs, and room to evolve.
Building the Friendship
Letting the Friendship Evolve
Keeping Characters Apart
Create believable barriers that affect how characters pursue or resist a relationship.
Building Believable Internal Barriers
Creating External Obstacles That Affect the Relationship
Writing Family Relationships
Explore family roles, expectations, and the changes that challenge familiar patterns.
Building Family Roles and Expectations
Changing the Family Dynamic
Conflict, Rupture & Repair
Develop relationship breaking points and reconciliation supported by meaningful change.
Writing a Relationship Breaking Point
Earning Reconciliation Through Changed Behavior
From Attraction to a Relationship
Develop romantic feelings into deliberate choices about pursuing a relationship.
Developing Romantic Feelings
Making the Relationship a Choice