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.
Handling Doubt and Comparison
Examine self-doubt and turn comparison into useful opportunities to learn.
Questioning Unhelpful Assumptions About Your Ability
Turning Comparison Into Purposeful Learning
Building Your Writing Community
Develop compatible writing relationships with reciprocal support and useful accountability.
Finding Compatible Writing Relationships
Building Reciprocal Support and Accountability
Finding Your Way Through a Stalled Draft
Diagnose a stalled draft and test story possibilities that could restore momentum.
Diagnosing Why Progress Has Stopped
Testing Possible Next Steps in the Story
Giving Every Scene a Purpose
Give each scene an immediate pursuit and a meaningful change that advances the story.
Establishing the Character’s Immediate Goal
Creating a Meaningful Change by the Scene’s End
Protecting Your Creative Energy
Match your writing commitments to your capacity and make space for rest and return.
Choosing What Fits Your Current Capacity
Planning Rest and a Manageable Return to Writing
Building Conflict Within a Scene
Develop resistance and escalating choices that make a scene’s conflict matter.
Introducing Resistance to the Goal
Escalating Through Tactics, Choices, and Setbacks