How to Get the Most Out of a Writing Workshop

Diane Callahan
11 min readDec 16, 2023
How to get the most out of a writing workshop with a collage of photos: a workshop table, me reading, a bay view, a notebook for writing by writers

Feedback supercharges our growth as writers. Left to the company of our own minds and keyboards, we make assumptions about how readers will experience our stories — surely, they’ll connect with the main character right away, or they’ll never guess that big twist. But we don’t know those things for certain until we hear others discuss the story in real time, showing us what lands and what needs further…

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