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.
Power and Conflict in Conversation
Use conversational leverage and shifts in control to create dynamic exchanges.
Establishing Conversational Leverage
Writing Shifts in Control
Writing Banter
Write playful exchanges that reveal character and develop the relationship.
Building Playful Back-and-Forth
Making Banter Serve the Relationship
Directing Dialogue on the Page
Support dialogue with clear tags, purposeful movement, and well-placed pauses and thoughts.
Choosing Tags and Purposeful Action Beats
Controlling Pace Through Pauses and Interiority
Creating a Sustainable Writing Routine
Build a writing routine and manageable goals around the life you actually have.
Designing a Routine Around Your Actual Life
Setting Flexible, Manageable Goals
Writing Conversations With Several Characters
Keep group conversations clear while giving participants competing purposes and opportunities to speak.
Keeping Speakers Clear
Managing Competing Agendas and Participation
Getting Started When Writing Feels Hard
Identify what makes starting difficult and experiment with practical ways forward.
Identifying the Source of Resistance
Experimenting With Ways to Get Started