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Here I am giving a workshop on tropes at Barnes & Noble Bookstore in North Richland Hills, TX.
A wonderful worldbuilding workshop with Laura Drake in Midland, Texas in 2019.

Workshops

Workshops I have presented:

Now and then, I present workshops both live and online. I’ve presented workshops at local colleges, at local writers groups, at local writers conventions, and even in Europe. 

The great thing about doing workshops is that I learn so very much! And they are a lot of fun.

Here is a complete list and below this, you can see more information on my most popular writing workshops. Interested? Give me a shout!

* The Art of Critique: Digging the Dirt Out of Your Draft
*Creating Unique Creatures as Characters
*Critiques: How to Critique Your Own Manuscript
* Editing Like a Pro
* Examining Online Media: How to build your audience before your book is sold
* Fangle Dangle Your Fantasy with Urban Delight
* Formatting Fundamentals: Shaping up your manuscript for publication
* Formatting for Effect: How to power up your writing
*Generating Gorgeous Genre
*Goths, Gadgets & Grunge: Steampunk Stories with Style
* Me & Chi: Increase your creativity and health with Tai Chi and meditation for writers
* NaNo-ing Your Novel to Publication
* New York Novels: How to write, edit, and polish your manuscript for the American publisher and audience
* The Science in Science Fiction (Tarrant County Community College)
*Sizzling Synopses & Captivating Queries
* Urban Fantasy: More vamp for your tramp and more bang for your fan
*Worldbuilding Wizardry

Here I'm in Ansterdam, The Netherlands, giving a workshop on New York Novels, talking about what the US publishers expect in their manuscripts which basically covered formatting, genre elements including tropes, and publishing houses.
This was the New York Novel class in The Hague. We had a lot of fun.
workshops both online & in person

Workshops

These are some of my most popular workshops.

Interested? Email me.

The Art of Critique Writing Workshop by Pat Hauldren

The Art of Critique

Every manuscript requires some form of feedback about the story, the plot, the characters, the pacing, and so on. In this workshop, we discuss how to recognize different aspects of story and how to analyze them to become better writers.

Creatures as Characters Writing Workshop by Pat Hauldren

Creatures as Characters

Are you writing your creatures as characters too? Your main creatures all have their own story to tell and it’s up to us as their creators to embellish them with a full life as a creature, one our readers will relish, or abhore. Often creatures become cliche. Learn how to create unique, fascinating creature characters for your readers.

Edit Like a Pro Writing Workshop by Pat Hauldren

Edit Like a Pro!

Polish your manuscript with these simple steps. Learn the tools, tips, and tricks of the professionals.

Formatting Fundamentals Writing Workshop by Pat Hauldren

Formatting Fundamentals: Shaping up your manuscript for publication

In this workshop, we discuss how to properly format your manuscript for submission to an editor or agent–electronic submission or print. We also discuss how to format your text for effect and the use of white space.

Generating Gorgeous Genre Writing Workshop by Pat Hauldren

Generating Gorgeous Genre

In this workshop we discuss how our genre works and how to work our genre to best effect. Every genre has tropes and expectations. We as writers must meet those for our readers.

World Building Writing Workshop by Pat Hauldren

Worldbuilding Wizardry

In this workshop we learn how the elements of worldbuilding and how to use it on our writing to best effect for our genre.