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Reasons Why You Should Attend A Writer’s Workshop

By on November 6, 2019

Lots of writers are in two minds about whether to bother with attending a writer's workshop. They often cost money and can feel intimidating. However, there are plenty of benefits, too, and hopefully, by exploring them, you might feel more encouraged to go.

Let's take a look at why attending a writer's workshop could help you:

Learning from experience

If you pick a reputable writing workshop, you should find that the person leading it has a wealth of experience. They should have some impressive success in the writing and publishing world. Meeting someone like this face to face in an intimate setting can be inspiring and so helpful. Hopefully, they'll share all their experience and pearls of wisdom with you. They can leave you feeling reinvigorated and motivated to succeed.

Interacting with your contemporaries

Writers often find themselves writing alone - it's not much of a team sport after all. By attending a writing workshop, you'll have the chance to socialize and interact with your fellow writers. This can be helpful for a myriad of reasons. Sharing problems and experiences, laughing at the bizarre writing world and its strange practices, and generally opening up about the writing process and sharing tips and advice can be extremely helpful and cathartic too.

Gaining fresh perspectives

By attending a writing workshop, you can hope to gain new perspectives on the art of writing in general, but also by sharing your own work. Sometimes a fresh set of eyes can be all that's needed to get over an obstacle and help you get back on track with your writing once more.

Learning new things and seeing results

Writing workshops, if run well, will be an excellent source of information. They'll give you new ideas, introduce you to helpful techniques and provide lots of great resources and actionable advice that can improve your writing significantly.

Trying something new

Even if a writing workshop sounds like a terrible idea, it's always good to try new things and step out of our comfort zones from time to time, so while they might not be for everyone, you'll never know until you try, and it can be chalked up as an experience even if you realize it wasn't right for you. 

Hopefully, the above may be enough to convince you to give a writing workshop a try. Just take your time to research a good one and think about what you want to get out of it before you go, then attend with a positive attitude and an open mind, and you might be surprised at what a writing workshop can do for you!

So now you know why you should attend a writer's workshop, why not learn whether writing retreats are really worth it?

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