What’s the difference between a course and a workshop?
Glad you asked.
In a course you work on exercises assigned by your online instructor, to get started on a script, polish your skills or begin to learn the fundamentals of the craft. Each week the instructor posts a tutorial on a particular topic, and provides online handouts and “homework”. You submit your assignments by e-mail for his or her individual feedback. By the end of the course, you should be started on a script — which, if you want, you can then take into an E-script workshop!
In a workshop you work on your script-in-progress with the guidance of a working professional. You regularly submit script material by e-mail to your mentor for individual weekly feedback. You may also access the private E-script listserv to stay in touch with other writers in our workshops and courses, and use our public message boards to trade news, discuss playwriting and theatre and even post script material for feedback. At the end of the workshop, you have the option of “meeting” with your mentor in the E-script chatroom, accessible via any web-browser.