Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Laura P. Valtorta Men. What are they seeing? What are they feeling? Why is Woody Allen a sports fan? They act so bombastic and inscrutabl...

By Brian Butler How many times have you sat down to write with that blank receptacle before you and yet nothing to plug into it? A common oc...

By Alex Raley Just when I think my brain has finally gotten a grip on writing, something jars the hold. Early in my writing attempts I heard...

By Celinda Barefield OK, I was originally going to write a follow up to my last article about how to integrate a good writing guide into you...

Meet A New Writer David Sennema Dave was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, graduated from Albion College, and then spent the next two years at...

By David Sennema As a barbershop quartet singer one of my favorite things to do is what barbershoppers call “woodshedding” a song. No printe...

By Ginny Padgett I think many writers benefit from the catharsis of writing. In fact, it’s probably a driving force for some. Recently, I ma...

By Deborah Wright Yoho What goes through your mind, Gentle Reader, when I tell you that I teach adults to read? How can an adult not know ho...

By Celinda Barefield Lately as I have been in the middle of a writer’s block, one question has been plaguing my mind. How do you write somet...

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...

Meet a New Writer Suzanne Gwinner I have spent a career working with dyslexic students, students who learn differently, call them what you w...

By Suzanne Gwinner At the end of May I gleefully waved goodbye to my cherubs at school as they scrambled into an assortment of cars, SUVs, ...

Meet a New Writer Marissa Burt I am an unabashed lover of all things book-related. Like most avid readers, I've tried my hand at writin...

By Marissa Burt I recently saw an interview with a well known actor who described this approach to his film roles: for each take of a scene,...

By George Newport Life consists of: What you want. What you need. What you deserve. What you end up with. What you do with what you get. I h...

By George Newport I enlisted in the Army, at seventeen, by getting my older brother and his wife to pose as my parents and sign the necessar...

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 Bonnie Stanard This criticism goes to the question of creativity, especially as it applies to fiction. How can we produce writing that de...

By Alex Raley During our last writers group meeting, I realized that I am the oldest person in the group, by both years of age and by years ...

By Vikki Perry, moderator of Columbia II SCWW Last month, I participated in a contest offered by The Knight Agency. The prize was a critiqu...