The Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group holds regular workshops that last several hours long. Members are allowed to attend, but becuse of space considerations, we cannot accept the public at the moment. If you wish to attend one of our workshops, then you will have to join the group. The workshops are held every other month and announcements are made on the member-only mailing list several weeks in advance of each workshop.

The workshops follow this general outline for the flow of the workshops:

• 20-30 minute presentation.
• 20-30 minute Q&A session.
• 2 1/2 to 3 hour "free writing" time. During this time you can:
• Quietly sit in a corner and write.
• Brainstorm with your fellow writers on ideas for stories.
• Quietly talk over problem areas in your writing.
• Discuss the latest publishing news, reviews and books that you've read.

Future presenations at the writing workshops are as planned:

• February 11, 2012 -- Writing and Critiquing Poetry -- Mel Kary
• April 7, 2012 -- Writing Realistic Science Fiction -- Nikki Hohl
• June 9, 2012 -- To be verbs, word territory, passive voice and adverbs -- Hank Snider and Hollie Snider
• August 11, 2012 -- World Building -- J.T. Evans and Rick Collette
• October 13, 2012 -- Grammar and Punctuation Basics -- Mel Kary
• December 8, 2012 -- Copyright Basics -- TBD

Past presentations at the writing workshops include:

• How to increase the tension in your stories -- J.T. Evans
• Writing empathetic characters -- Hollie Snider
• Crafting better dialogue -- Hollie Snider
• The Hero's Journey -- J.T. Evans
• Goal, Motivation and Conflict -- J.T. Evans

The workshops are held at Fire Station #14 from 1 PM until 4 PM. The address of Fire Station #14 is 1875 Dublin Blvd., Colorado Springs CO 80918.