Whitespace Writers

Come fight the good fight starting THIS TUESDAY! ⚔️ Join us for Find Your Voice, Tell Your Story by heading to the link in our profile! 📝🤩

JOIN A WRITING GROUP! It’s the quickest, easiest, and most painless way to get comfortable with sharing your words with the world. One of the most unique things about our workshops is that we don’t offer any criticism or constructive feedback to anyone who shares their work. This rubs some folks the wrong way—after all, how are you supposed to get better if others don’t tell you what they think is “wrong” with your writing? But our goal isn’t to help you please other people. Our goal is to help you tell your truth in your own unique voice. Our goal is to help you recognize and nurture what is ALREADY amazing in your writing. Believe it or not, when your fellow classmates are limited to telling you only what they love about your work, mentioning in their feedback only the things that reached out and touched them, your work swiftly becomes more confident, more authentic, more sparkly and shiny and fresh. Grab your spot for our last in-person 2020 workshop at the link in our profile, and learn how freeing it is to trust your words with people who only give you love and encouragement in return. 🥰

Happy day of love, writers! Take this as your official permission to get a bit wild with your heart today—it’s gonna make for a great story tomorrow. 😉

Want to learn how to write a brilliant film with incredible plot structure like the one in Greta Gerwig's new film adaptation (which we are OBSESSED with)?? Come join our Whitespace Writers Film & Screenwriting workshop running 4 weeks starting next Tuesday! It's a jam-packed, in-depth workshop on how to write a screenplay, focused on creating plot, structure, and characters out of thin air. You don't need ANY experience to join, and you can join with or without a story idea. Check out the link in the comments to register!

One of the most common fears that crops up in our signature Find Your Voice workshop is the fear that you don’t have anything original to say—that your life and thoughts are not interesting enough to warrant writing about. Well guess what, pal: you’ve got nothing to worry about. As the great Flannery O’Connor puts it, “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”

What you might think of as boring—a suburban childhood, the universally humiliating experience of puberty, falling in love for the first time, breaking a bone, trying to keep seedlings alive in your first garden, adopting a rescue dog—all of these are rich with story. If you write with vulnerability, authenticity, and candour, even the most seemingly mundane of subjects transforms into something magical.

Come learn how to uncork that bottomless bottle of your life story and pour it out onto the page at the ONLY Find Your Voice, Tell Your Story workshop running in 2020! Class is in session starting March 3rd—sign up at whitespacewriters.com/joinus!