Fictionista Workshop is a supportive community of writers, editors, and readers, hoping to assist the online writing community through various projects and programs.

The Workshop is our most intense program and offers an in-depth, twelve-week critique of a finished manuscript. Fictionista tries to run at least two Workshops a year. If you are a writer or a reader who might benefit from an intense, collaborative effort focused on a single manuscript, please read further.

People who enjoy the online writing and reading communities are eager for creative opportunities in which they can interact with others. Writing can be a lonely process, whether done in private or with others; having a ready pool of other writers, editors, and readers available for immediate discussion and feedback when needed can be extraordinarily helpful. For that reason, we developed two different programs, the Writer Collective and the Workshop. The Writer Collective is a small writing group that meets once a week with a moderator and reader to hone the writer’s skills in a non-threatening, intimate environment. The Workshop is an intensive critique of a single manuscript by a group of readers and editors.

Each program is based on volunteers who offer their time simply because they love to read and write. That is why we call ourselves the Fictionista Workshop Community. As a volunteer-run organization, Fictionista Workshop would love to welcome you to our programs.

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Fictionista Workshop

We currently have no Workshops under way at this time so that we can run a Writer Collective in the spring of 2012. We may run another round of Workshops in the late fall or winter of 2012. If you are interested in a workshop, please fill out the appropriate application below. Please note there is now an application just for writers and a separate application for all other participants, including editors and moderators. Click here to view the current applications: apply as a writer or apply as a participant.

Here is more specific information about the available workshop roles:

Participants

Participants are readers, observers, and constructive critics, offering detailed feedback in formats appropriate for the workshop setting, as well as support and encouragement. They are a crucial, integrated part of the workshop and forum activity.

Editors

Editors review, rewrite, and edit the work of writers, offering comments as needed to improve the work. An editor’s primary responsibility is to readers, writers, and workshop participants (in that order); this means that they will base their decisions on the needs and interests of these constituents.

Moderators

The moderator manages and directs operations of one or more individual forums (writing projects) on Fictionista Workshop. This role is critical to the success of a given project, essentially functioning as a workshop leader and project manager in addition to performing more traditional duties of a forum moderator, such as resolving disagreements and maintaining discussion threads.

Writers

Writers are an integral part of the workshop as a whole, and are key to the success of the workshop. Writers, editors and reader participants work together to polish a writer’s story, giving credibility to a proven process. Without writer participation, the workshop would be non-existent. Feedback from the writer and other participants assists with the completion of the writer’s story and provides assistance and ideas to others in the workshop.

A single word meant to inspire immediate thought. Write what your imagination dictates.

We’ll post your prompt in the comments section below, so feel free to comment. Don’t forget to also share it with your readers!

Plot Generator—Phrase Catch: Timing is everything.

Repeat the phrase to yourself five times, open a blank word document and begin.

We’ll post your prompt in the comments section below, so feel free to comment. Don’t forget to also share it with your readers!

Audio-Visual Challenge—Imagined Image:
Credit

View the image and write what comes to you.

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Sometimes, writing sucks.

Seriously sucks.

Writing is a lonely, hard, and often boring occupation. Sometimes it seems the only exciting things that happen are all in our heads. We have no one to play with, no one to talk to, no one to bounce our ideas around with, and no one to share our stories with.

Well no more!

Fictionista Workshop is here to save you from yourself and those persistent voices in your head.

This spring we’re running a twelve week Writer’s Collective where you can get together with fellow authors and talk, bounce, share, and vent.

The Collective is made up of several small groups of authors from similar genres. Each week, the authors get together with a moderator to discuss writing, critique each other’s work, and have fun talking about the ups and downs of the craft.

Best of all, it costs nothing more than your time.

If you have a manuscript that is over 50% complete and can give two or three hours a week to reading and critiquing the works of fellow writers, we want to hear from you.

Yes, you!

Do you have a manuscript that needs polishing? Do you need that final nudge to complete that book? Do you like the word “free?”

If you said yes to any of these, please click on the link below and send in your application today.

Submissions close on February 19^th, so don’t delay.

http://www.fictionistaworkshop.com/collective-application-form/

Choose one word and write what your imagination dictates. For an added challenge, include all three words in your entry.

We’ll post your prompt in the comments section below, so feel free to comment. Don’t forget to also share it with your readers!

We’ll upload your entry to the comments section of the individual prompt page the day after it’s received. Don’t forget to share it with your readers!

Dialogue Flex: “So what do you think of our new boss?” he asked.

Using the provided snippet of dialogue, explore what comes to mind, be it a scene, a thought, or something else.

We’ll post your prompt in the comments section below, so feel free to comment. Don’t forget to also share it with your readers!

Plot Generator—Binding Blurb: In 500 words or fewer, write a blurb or a short entry on managing stress.

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