But it's not just workshop graduates who write stories in the US - virtually all of America's major writers do so too.
In the movie, I was just workshopping it.
They are making their way not just into workshops and factories, but also into the offices of designers, architects and researchers, and are being embraced by entrepreneurs who are using them to invent entirely new businesses.The 3-D printers currently available use a variety of technologies, each of which is suited to different applications.
In L.A. it was just a workshop.
When the history of Osvaldo Golijov's "Ainadamar" is written, the opera's 2003 premiere at the Tanglewood Music Center may be considered just a workshop along the way.
Training could use pre- and post-session engagement through social media discussions, webinars, video conferences so learning is about more than just the workshop at the moment it happens.
"When it comes to renewable technology and sustainable energy, China could be the laboratory of the world -- not just the workshop of the world," said Scott Roberts, Cambridge Energy Research Associates analyst in China.
"Actually, this YRP has been one of GeNeYouS's main activities this year," she says, indicating that GeNeYouS has turned this YRP into more than just a workshop session.
She conducted some trainings in the East, but it was often as part of workshops just for former East Germans, such as teachers who had to go through retraining to be recertified.
But painters and sculptors were artisans working within family-based workshops, just like tailors, locksmiths, goldsmiths and cabinetmakers.
