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.
Who Holds Power in Your World?
Build systems of power that influence both major conflicts and everyday decisions.
Designing Institutions and Hierarchies
Showing How Power Affects Ordinary Choices
Technology That Changes the World
Develop technology that changes how people live while creating believable limitations.
Developing Technology and Its Limits
Exploring How People Live With It
Rules With Consequences
Create laws and social expectations whose enforcement and exceptions affect the story.
Establishing Laws and Social Expectations
Developing Enforcement, Exceptions, and Consequences
Worldbuilding in Realistic Fiction
Research a real setting and develop the particular community your characters inhabit.
Researching a Real Setting
Building the Specific Community Your Characters Inhabit
Designing Magic That Matters
Design magic with clear possibilities, limits, and effects on everyday life.
Establishing What Magic Can and Cannot Do
Exploring How Magic Changes Daily Life
Bringing Your World Onto the Page
Reveal your world through the story while choosing what readers need to know.
Revealing Information Through Action and Interaction
Choosing What Readers Need to Know and When