ABSTRACT
Many workshops are led by a professional who knows story structure and is familiar with the most common difficulties encountered by new-ish writers. Writers can't really know what's on the page until readers reflect back to them what they're learning as the story moves along. As the saying goes, there is no great writing – only great revising. There are various styles for writing action. Some writers invest a lot of time in crafting vivid, poetic or blow-by-blow descriptions. Others provide the minimal information required for the reader and/or director to get what they need to understand the scene. Actors have different ways of talking, of interpreting scenes and delivering lines and of displaying emotions. It's important to also get feedback from people who are familiar with the craft. There are several ways to make this happen: the workshop, the staged reading and the table reading.
