Where And How To Attend The Writers Workshop

I've been making a pretty decent living for myself as a freelance writer for the last few years. I like my writing career because I have total control over it and am able to take on a variety of different projects to help keep things interesting. Nevertheless, I can't say that I'm completely satisfied with the way the actual writing process is going. That's because I spend so much time churning out nonfiction articles and content to help pay the bills that I never have any energy left to work on my novel. In order to force myself to keep up with my fiction, I've decided to enroll in a writers workshop.

I'd never attended a writers workshop before, but had seen them advertised from time to time in various magazines and on certain websites. As a result, I knew quite a bit about them already. For instance, I am aware that I can attend a writers workshop geared towards just about any genre I could think of. In addition to a writers workshop that focuses on fiction, I could also attend one for nonfiction, Internet writing, copywriting, and screenwriting. I'd even heard of a writers workshop for journaling, which I thought sounded very interesting. 

No matter what the focus of the writers workshop is, the overall intent is the same: to kickstart your manuscript. Typically speaking, writers workshop participants must either produce a certain number of pages per day for the duration of the program or else come to the program with a certain number of pages already written. This requirement is in place so that the instructor and the other people attending the writers workshop can give constructive criticism about your work or help you fine tune it into something saleable. In other words, a writers workshop is not the place for passive learning. If I attended one, I'd have to do a lot of writing in a short time.

That's exactly what I wanted, of course, so all that was left to do was sign up for a writers workshop and start pumping out fiction. Since I live in a rather out-of-the-way place, I knew my best bet was to join an online writers workshop instead of trying to find one near me. This was easily accomplished, and I was able to enroll in a nationally renowned course in a matter of minutes.

I begin my fiction writers workshop in just a few weeks, and I have to say that I'm very excited about it. Sure, it's nice to eke out a living from my writing, but what I (and most of the authors I know) really want to do is pen the next Great American Novel. Who knows? With the skills I learn from my writers workshop, I may be able to do just that!