Writing Workshops

I’m thinking about writing workshops. I’m thinking about applying for Viable Paradise in 2009, provided I can get some material together after I’ve written Hulk Hercules. I think, if I were accepted, I could get the college to cover the majority of Viable Paradise.

I think about the idea of joining a writing group, but I think that to some extent it would get in the way of my writing time, so I think maybe that’s not my best idea while I am day job writer(TM).

Another thing I would be interested in is a writer’s retreat. There’s this really interesting workshop called Blue Heaven that would be a good model for one. Again, it would be good to write first, and organize later. So no, I can’t plan a workshop. Stop it!

I’ll just think about Viable Paradise, then, and try to take some anti-inflammation medicine for my Type A gland, which is trying to swell into the time I’ve carefully carved out for writing.

Can anyone weigh in on Viable Paradise, or Clarion West, or Blue Heaven? What do you think of these kinds of workshops? Have you found them useful as writers? I haven’t been in a writing workshop since 1987 during graduate school, so I’m a bit rusty!

Catherine