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.
Writing Comedy
Create comic setups, reversals, and callbacks with deliberate timing.
Building Comic Setups and Reversals
Controlling Timing and Callbacks
Writing Historical Fiction
Build conflict within a historical period and make the setting feel lived in.
Building Conflict Within the Period
Making History Feel Lived
Writing Fantasy
Make the fantastic essential to your story and create opportunities for discovery and wonder.
Making the Fantastic Essential
Creating Discovery and Wonder
Finding Your Planning Method
Find an approach to planning that supports your writing process and leaves room for discovery.
Building a Flexible Outline
Giving Discovery Writing Enough Direction to Sustain Momentum
Writing Science Fiction
Develop a speculative possibility and connect its consequences to people readers care about.
Developing the Speculative “What If”
Making the Idea Personal
Setting the Story in Motion
Create the disruption that starts your story and gives the protagonist a reason to commit.
Creating an Inciting Incident
Building the Protagonist’s Commitment to the Central Conflict