Columbia Writers' Workshop II

Meet a New Blogger JOHN MAY I spend mornings trading currencies on-line, afternoons working on my medical suspense thriller. I...

By John May Whenever I finish a chapter, I hunt for certain words and types of words with my word processor and then try to kill as many ...

By Amanda Simays If a Snapple iced tea cap tells me that average humans eat eight spiders in their sleep, I can roll my eyes and move on....

By Kimberly Johnson You’d think she was water--she’s everywhere: a cover girl on magazines ( People, Cosmo, Glamour ), a reality TV titan...

By Bonnie Stanard I’ve just put down a novel of 368 pages after reading to page 179. I was interested in the story, so why did I call it qui...

By Lisa Lopez Snyder I’d like to revisit Alex’s June 26 post about point of view (POV), which I read with great interest because I, too, hav...

By Laura P. Valtorta For a while I resisted falling into the memoir trap. Among our “compagni” in Writers’ Group, Debbie seemed to be doing ...

By Kimberly Johnson The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) For President…it got me thinking. Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez sing karaoke…it got me hummi...

By David Sennema I subscribe to Poets and Writers magazine, not because of all the high-toned “success” and “how-to” stories, but because o...

By Shaun McCoy I'm a writer, and I want you to believe in a pixie. She's about 3.7" tall—though admittedly that's in heels—...

By Alex Raley Very early in my writing fiction, POV jumped up to challenge me. There was a constant battle between us. There was a story to ...

By Bonnie Stanard “I can write something about almost anything, but when it comes to a bio, I don’t know what to say.” If you haven’t said t...

By Ginny Padgett I’ve never understood that adage, “The Devil’s in the details.” I think details are important, especially in fiction writin...

Meet Our Newest Blogger GREGORY WYCHE A Connecticut native, and the son of two librarians, I am a graduate of the University of Connecticut ...

By Gregory Wyche As a writer, I have long considered Michael Crichton my nemesis. I first became disillusioned with him around senior year o...

By Michelle Gwynn Jones Regardless of the genre of a story, all writers must decide on a setting where it will unfold. Picking a setting is ...

By Amanda Simays It’s the end of the school year, the time when middle schoolers have to reflect on what they’ve learned, and it always mean...

By Kimberly Johnson Yeah. It feels good, in a seedy- Boogie - Nights (the movie) kinda way. Dirty never felt better. That’s right. I flip th...

By Laura Puccia Valtorta This afternoon I returned to South Carolina from my father’s memorial service in Watertown, New York. There was a b...

By Ginny Padgett Recently HBO aired a remake of Mildred Pierce as a mini-series, starring Kate Winslet. Many of you will recall the 1945 Jo...