Nope! I was a finalist in a short story competition in primary school and went to a one-day workshop with a children's author, but since then: nothing. I would really like to, because I think you can learn from pretty much anyone when it comes to sharing ideas about writing, and I like hearing what other people think of my work, but most workshops take time and money. And I don't have a lot of either.

I would LOVE to go on a writer's retreat thing with a small group of people (though they'd need to be mostly people I know, I think) and spend the time writing and encouraging each other and then dissecting each other's stuff. But again: time, money, most of the people I'd want to do this with being located in other continents...

What I really need is a crash course in how to sustain my writing-attention-span on a single project for long enough to finish a long original work.