The Write Time: Ten-Week Workshop
Imagine sitting down at your desk and knowing exactly what to write. The scenes, characters, and dialogue flow from your fingers. After a few inspired writing sessions, you’ve finished this draft. And then…
The doubt begins to creep in. Will anyone care about these characters? Does enough happen in the plot? Is this even a story, and if it is, how can you make it better?
You tinker around with a few commas, but it’s not a matter of punctuation — you need perspective.
So imagine you take the story to your writing group. They read it thoughtfully and answer your questions. Yes, the protagonist is doltish, and no, we don’t need longer moments of her romantic bumbling. They tell you which lines hooked them and which lines left them confused. They’re supportive — more than anything, they want you to this finish this story. And know you know how.
You leave the workshop with their notes covering your story. And the next day when you sit down at your desk, you dive back in.
I’m my decades of writing — feedback, peer support, and deadlines have been fundamental to my success. I’m now offering these to you in The Write Time Ten-Week Workshop.
How it Works
12 writers, maximum
10, 1.5 hour long meetings
The first meeting will be establishing workshop guidelines and our system for giving and receiving feedback
Our last meeting will be a reading of student work and discussion of next-steps for our projects.
6 pieces workshopped per session
2,000 word count limit per piece
$200 – $300 need-based tuition
Meeting Tuesdays April 30th – July 9th (skip Tuesday May 28th)
Tentatively scheduled from 4:30 pm – 6 pm ET.
Start time may vary ±1 hour based on student input
Style of Feedback
The group will practice giving and receiving feedback in the style of Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. This framework emphasizes making observations and asking questions about the author’s intent, rather than projecting our opinions and assumptions onto their work.
My facilitating is based on years of leading writing workshops, my mindfulness meditation training, and the work of Matthew Salesses (Craft in the Real World) and Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop.
The goal is to empower the author to verbalize their creative choices and write into them, instead of editing their piece based on what someone tells them they “need” to change.
What Students are Saying
“The Write Time has helped me grow and flourish as a writer, and I know I'm not alone in this feeling! It's a place where I feel safe to take creative risks and share first drafts. The support from Grace but also from the other writers gives me that extra boost to overcome writer's block and continue believing in my craft.” — Ella Bartlett, poet & translator
“The Write Time has been the dream workshop to take the scary step into publicly sharing my prose, and for finding camaraderie, encouragement, and professional guidance to develop my craft. My confidence and voice has grown hugely as a result of regularly attending these workshops. I am so grateful to Grace for her commitment to this community, and their generosity in sharing their editorial expertise.”— Morganne Howell, fiction writer
“I constantly return to Grace for writing guidance because she excels at both high-level story development coaching as well as detailed, thoughtful line edits. Grace brings intention, care, and rigor to every piece she works on, and it's made my writing worlds better. I leave every class and coaching session excited to dive back into my work!” – Katie G
FAQs
How much time per week will this take?
Outside of workshop time, please anticipate spending 2-3 hours per week writing, reading, and preparing comments on other’s work. This means a total commitment of 3.5 - 5.5 hours per week,
What genres can I bring?
This iteration of the workshop will be open to all genres. This includes: short stories, excerpts from a memoir, a novel, or anything related to querying, as well as poetry in all its forms.