Columbia Writers' Workshop II

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 Lisa Lopez Snyder Thanks to a generous scholarship I had an opportunity this past July to spend two weeks at the New York State Summer Wr...

By Laura P. Valtorta During a recent disaster evacuation drill at Stanford University, all went awry. Workers and students were supposed to...

By Beth Cotten Remember the movie Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? As I recall, it bordered on a horror movie. The title stirred my muse to w...

By Alex Raley When I began writing fiction, I tried to include every thought, detail, and event that could possibly be related to the story ...

By Bonnie Stanard When Shakespeare, in his play Julius Caesar , had Cassius say “The clock has stricken three,” he committed a faux pas whic...

By Tiem Wilson O ur blog rocks, let me be clear. U nlike any other, it’s a place to share R elevant information for those who care. B ooks, ...

By Kimberly Johnson I didn’t pay the $7.50 at the ticket window last Saturday. That’s right; I’m the only one who didn’t see Avatar . You kn...

By Mike Long I'm not sure where I'm going with this—it feels more like venting than advising potential writers. It seems to me that ...

By Mayowa Atte Not that kind of gut. I am talking about that other writer’s gut. The writer’s instinct. Among all the skills and talents a w...

By Deborah Wright Yoho As a writer, I feel buffeted by the pressures of globalization. Ever since I read Thomas Friedman’s iconic books on t...

By Monet Jones “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” What a bunch of nonsense! Most of us have heard this lin...

By Michelle Gwynn Jones Whenever I tell someone that I am a writer their first question is always “What do you write?” I can see the look of...

By Ilmars Birznieks Repeatedly educators and parents in our country question the relevancy of foreign languages in schools. Their argument i...

By Ginny Padgett I must say Adam Ross’s Mr. Peanut goes against all the advice from experts we aspiring writers hear for crafting a first-ti...

By Suzanne Gwinner In April, I attended a weekend boot camp. A writers' boot camp. A children’s writers’ boot camp to be exact. When I ...

By Alex Raley My twelve-year-old grandson just finished a workshop in creative writing as a part of the University of South Carolina'...

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 Kimberly Johnson I’m on the interstate (I-20 E) and I’m thinking about the topic for this blog. My radio’s on 97.5 FM and my AC is on 5....

Meet a New Writer MONET M. JONES I am currently a member of the SC Writers’ Workshop, and participate in several online writers’ groups. I r...