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.
Tightening Your Sentences
Trim unnecessary wording and make deliberate choices about filtering and action qualifiers.
Cutting Unnecessary Language
Handling Filtering and Action Qualifiers
Editing Dialogue
Strengthen spoken exchanges and the narration, tags, and beats around them.
Tightening the Spoken Exchange
Editing What Surrounds the Dialogue
Making Every Word Clear
Replace imprecise language and repair sentences that obscure your meaning.
Choosing Precise Words
Repairing Confusing Sentences
Copyediting for Consistency
Build a style sheet and use it to check consistency throughout your manuscript.
Building and Using a Style Sheet
Checking Manuscript-Wide Consistency
Editing for Rhythm and Flow
Revise repetitive sentence patterns and improve the way paragraphs connect and move.
Repairing Repetitive Sentence Patterns
Improving Paragraph Flow
Making Sentences Grammatically Sound
Recognize sentence-boundary errors and apply subject–verb agreement in your own prose.
Sentence Boundaries
Subject–Verb Agreement