I came across a site, Writing Classes, offering online writing workshops as well as their physical workshops in New York City. This site was created by Gotham Writers’ Workshop, a privately owned creative writing school in New York City. Gotham’s instructors wrote and published a book entitled, Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide. There are excerpts of each chapter on their site. It’s well worth the time and effort to check it out.

There are detailed descriptions of the workshops with a sample of their online classes. The online workshops vary from 4 weeks to 10 weeks and are on a variety of writing genes. The price of the workshops are reasonable, though certainly not cheap but I’d guess participants get their monies worth. Even if you never plan on taking one of the workshops, check out their resource page. They have articles on writing, writing tips and character questionnaires.

I’ve looked at a lot of sites offering online writing workshops. Some looked credible and some looked iffy. This one has had a lot of good publicity from authoritative sits such as Zoetrope, Time Warner, Barnes & Noble and Draft. I read a writers blow-by-blow article on her experience of one of the online workshops. If I can find it again, I will add it here later. It was enticing enough to make me look closer at the site and what they offer. I’d take one of their workshop classes if I had the extra $. It might help in getting me out of the rut I’ve fallen into the past few years.

If anyone who has taken one of the workshops happens by, please leave a comment and tell me about your experience.