One of the things that sets Peerscribe apart from regular social networks is the ability to create and join workshops. Workshops allow you to exercise your creative muscles by forcing yourself to write in a structured environment.

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Creating a workshop on PS is very easy. Go to your Workshop tab (up top), click on Create a new workshop, then fill out the form top-down. Separate Topics with commas the way you would separate tags on a blog. For the Website, try adding a page that might further explain the subject of your workshop. A Wikipedia page might be a good, simple addition to your workshop. (Adding a Website is optional, however.)

To add a manuscript to your workshop, click on the Workshop manuscripts from the workshop's main page. Once in the Workshop manuscripts page, click on New manuscript.

If you join a workshop with a shared manuscript (like Telephone), you can edit the workshop manuscript by going into the Workshop manuscripts page, selecting the manuscript, and clicking Edit manuscript.

Done and done.

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Now go check out some of the open workshops already in progress, get some ideas, and create your own.

We started Peerscribe in hopes of creating a space on the Web for writers. We hoped it would become a place to foster creativity. A place where we could get feedback on our works-in-progress. Where we would feel comfortable giving advice one day and seeking guidance the next. A place that would connect us to our peers on the other side of the planet as easily as it would our peers on the other side of town. Slowly, it is becoming that place.

As our community grows, we hope our collective ambition grows with it. Among us we now have published poets and seasoned storytellers, but we also have writers who are just getting to know their craft. Through feedback, workshops, and the simple act of publishing our work for our peers to examine, we hope Peerscribe will become an instrument that nurtures our voices, cultivates our talent, sharpens our skills, and focuses our view of the world.

Thank you for helping us write this vision.

Poetry, short stories, novels... they're never really completed until the ink has settled on the paper and royalty checks have been mailed. And even then, any writer worth his salt will look at his words and find ways he could've said it better.

It's a process. That's why Peerscribe lets you track your edits. See your voice develop with every deleted word. Every new sentence. Every fragment. Evolve. Now you have proof.