Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Kim Byer Beyond a beautiful piece of art or the occasional puppy, a new book is my favorite Christmas gift. During the holidays, my bedsi...

By Lisa Lopez Snyder Are you making stereotypes of your characters? Are they predictable? If so, you need to give them a good hard shake and...

By Laura P. Valtorta Stieg Larsson, (1954 – 2004) the Swedish author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (in Sweden originally titled Men who...

By Lisa Lopez Snyder Earlier this week I got stuck in the mud. Over the holidays I started a story, and step by step I put my protagonist, “...

By Bonnie Stanard Point of view (POV), like other literary devices, changes fashion as the art of writing explores new territory. The omnisc...

By Laura P. Valtorta It took me three readings to understand how Audrey Niffenegger took a vain protagonist (Claire Abshire) dropped her int...

By Beth Cotten A fellow writer, who admitted to being new at the game of novel writing, asked a group of our members how to go about properl...

By Janie Kronk Need a new perspective on what all those hours at the keyboard mean? Check out Malcom Gladwell’s latest book, Outliers . Alth...

By Ginny Padgett Recently I was asked, “Who is your favorite writer?” “William Faulkner,” was my quick, word-association answer. I do think...

By Meredith H. Kaiser Columbia II Writers Workshop One of my favorite books on writing is Parting the Curtains: Voices of the Great Southern...

By Beth Cotten Columbia II Writers Workshop Most of the following books were written in the 1980s and 1990s; a paperback edition of The Week...