“As for myself,” says Stephen King in his wonderful book On Writing, “I’m doubtful about writing classes, but not entirely against them.” What I want to insist on in this article is that writing classes – or seminars, or workshops, or writing circles, call ‘em what you will – can be inspirational, motivational, and
a spur to action and that Mr King would do well to approach the subject a tad less sceptically.
