image

Latest news: there's still room in my Seattle writing classes!

Sign up for my three-session free writing classes, Jumpstart Your Writing, beginning Wednesday Sept. 16 at 6 p.m. Pacific time via Zoom video conference. The sequence will teach you how to beat writers block, start a writing practice, compose a dynamite opening, and make concrete steps toward finishing your story or book. It features the following writing classes:
The Writing Life: the Habit of Art (Sept. 16).
The Perfect Pitch: How to Write a Story Idea (Sept 23).
Writing Snappy Openings: How to Open Your Story or Book (Sept. 30).

There’s still room in my fall Seattle Writing Class, Revising Your Life and in our online writing classes. Sign up early to reserve your slot!

Writing Classes with The Writer's Workshop

image

SEATTLE

Writing Classes

Have a compelling story? Want to learn the craft of narrative writing? Dr. Nick O’Connell teaches time-honored principles with a relaxed style in a sequence of four enjoyable Seattle writing courses, from nut graph to structure, from lead to climax.

Preview our Seattle Writing Classes >
image

TRAVEL

Writing in Europe

This course uses all of an author’s skills—ranging from dramatic scenes, character sketches, concrete detail, point of view, and scene by scene construction—to compose compelling, engaging travel narratives.

Preview our Travel Writing Classes >
image

ONLINE

Writing Classes

Have you always wanted to write but needing a refresher course on the nuts and bolts of creative writing? Would you like to extend and enhance your writing techniques? If so, these online writing classes will help you communicate clearly and effectively in email, reports, letters, essays as wells as learning the art and craft of fiction and nonfiction narrative. Learn more!

Preview our Online Writing Classes >
video

Email or Call Today: (206) 284-7121

Have you always wanted to write but haven’t known where to start?

Have you written in the past but need a refresher? Are you an experienced author who wants to perfect and extend your technique?

We offer a wide variety of writing classes, including Seattle writing classes, travel writing classes and online writing classes to meet the needs of a wide range of writers. All of our instructors have extensive teaching and professional writing experience, allowing them to guide you through the sometimes bewildering world of newspaper, magazine and book publication. We provide expert, constructive criticism to help you master the art and craft of writing.

Find the writing class that's perfect for you >

Writing classes help writers tell compelling stories.

Reach a wide audience and satisfy some of their deepest yearnings for pattern, mystery, and coherence in their lives.

Narrative writing allows for great scope and ambition, but it requires commitment to the habit of art to succeed. Our writing classes will help you develop your own habit of art, mastering the art and craft of narrative writing essential to creating fiction and nonfiction stories.

We teach Seattle writing classes, travel writing classes and a wide range of online writing classes.

Meet your writing instructor Nicholas O'Connell

image More about Nicholas >

Hello & welcome!

Learn the secrets of narrative writing in my writing classes and:
– on my blog
– The Writer’s Workshop Review
– Narrative Writing Techniques

I look forward to working with you!

Yours,

Nicholas O’Connell, M.F.A., Ph.D.
nick@thewritersworkshop.net
(206) 284-7121

image

Stay in the loop - subscribe to our email newsletter!

Stay uploaded through our newsletter to begin your career!

Email newsletter sign up >