David's Writing Circle

David's Writing Circle: An 8-Week Writing Workshop for Writers Who Want to Level Up ✨

Find your people. Grow your stories.

If you’ve ever wished for a writing group that’s both supportive and genuinely useful, this is the one.

Whether you’re crafting a novel, polishing a memoir, building a short-story collection, or experimenting with poetry, David’s Writing Circle gives you the space, structure, and community to get better—week after week.

Why You’ll Love This Workshop

Great writing doesn’t happen alone. In this group, you’ll get:

• Thoughtful, constructive feedback that actually helps you improve
• Fresh ideas and energizing discussions about the craft of storytelling
• Mini-lessons and deep dives into the writing topics you care about
• A space where all genres, all styles, and all levels are truly welcome

Together, we’ll:

• Break down the essential elements of strong storytelling
• Develop new ideas and inspiration for your work
• Strengthen your craft in a friendly, encouraging, no-ego environment
• Build momentum so you’re actually writing—not just thinking about writing

Whether you’re brand-new or many drafts in, you’ll find yourself supported, challenged, and excited to keep going.

Workshop Details

• 8 weeks of writing, learning, sharing, and growing
• Wednesdays, 6–8 pm ET
• Jan 7 – Feb 25, 2026
• Online via Google Meet—join from anywhere!

That’s two full months of creative energy, feedback, accountability and community to supercharge your writing life.

When and Where

We will meet every Wednesday evening, 6 - 8 pm ET, online via Google Meet starting Jan 7 - Feb 25

Along with time working together to get your story finished, we'll look at some of these topics (among others of your choosing)

Here are some of the topics we'll cover:

• plotting techniques and tool
• writing to market
• The psychology of characters and their motivations
• advanced dialogue methods
• prologues and epilogues
• Conflict and Tension
• How to lengthen or shorten your prose
• adding colour and nuance to your story
• Writing a satisfying ending
• Revising, Editing and the final touches
• using AI to help with your story and editing

What We'll Do

In-class time is a mix of teaching the above writing strategies and showing real-life examples of how they work. We will also spend time writing and discussing our stories-in-progress in class so you’ll have a chance to learn as much as we can from each other.

My Role

My role is to coach you through the story-writing process, give you constructive feedback, show you the proven techniques that experienced writers use, and challenge your assumptions. I will help you develop your story idea, characters and plotting so you have a clear roadmap to follow.

Money Back Guarantee

We're so confident our program will help you draft your first short story that we're offering a 100% personal money back guarantee. If you do the work and you're not completely satisfied by the end of the workshop, we'll personally help you get on track or give you your money back no questions asked.

Group size is limited for more quality time together.

What Others Are Saying About the Ottawa Writing Workshops

“Thank you! Wonderful, useful and welcoming!”

“Great session!”

“I really enjoyed the class. I learned a lot. I would have liked an even longer session as I really enjoyed everything we learned today. Thanks!”

“The writing exercises were fun and motivating.”

“Best practical ‘How To’ guidelines to writing and revising”

Refund and Intellectual Property Policy

When you sign up for this workshop, you agree to and understand the following:

- any stories, story ideas, character ideas, or anything related to the development of fiction in the workshop remain the intellectual property of the individual participant

- full refunds will only be issued up to 7 days before the workshop takes place. After that, no refund will be issued for any reason, including but not limited to personal issues, schedule conflicts, or illness. This is necessary to ensure that the costs I have to commit to personally with respect to room rentals, equipment rentals, materials and other expenses are covered.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Are there ID or minimum age requirements to register for the workshop?

No. Everyone is welcome and all levels are welcome from beginner to experienced.

What's Google Meet all about... I've never used it?

It's pretty simple. You'll be sent a link via email for the Meet. Just click on the link and you're in! Of course, the instructor will help you get familiar with the platform each step of the way.

I'm not working on a story right now, but I'd like to start one during this workshop. Is that okay?

Absolutely. This workshop is designed for writers at all stages of the story writing process, from story idea, to planning and plotting, writing and revising.

What can I bring into the event?

Bring your enthusiasm!

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

contact David at davidallanhamilton00 @ gmail.com

Meet Your Instructor for this workshop...

David Allan Hamilton

David will be running this workshop. He's a full-time writer and writing instructor in Ottawa, and is author of the best-selling Ross 128 Science Fiction Adventure Series.