Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Writing for Episodic TV

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By Kimberly Johnson Ba-ba-badaa. With those three beats, everyone in America knows that Law & Order is on the tube. Cue the flutt...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

What Value Do You Give Your Writing?

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By Bonnie Stanard Way back in 2008, the Columbia II workshop took a moment during its meeting to write down advice we would give a person be...
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

SCWW Conference - Special Labor Day Weekend Offer

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By Ginny Padgett 2012 SCWW Conference – October 19-21 – Myrtle Beach It’s that time of year again. School is back in session, football r...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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Eggs, Milk and a Keyboard: Ingredients Needed To Write for a Food Review By Kimberly Johnson ...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

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How to Write People: One Socially Inept Writer's Hopeless and Sisyphean Struggle to Capture the Complexities of Human Social Behavior in...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Personal Experience Trumps Research

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By Fred Fields I have a complaint with Rush Limbaugh. He sounds so logical and knowledgeable and smart. But every time he talks about ...
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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Bio-Fiction

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By Alex Raley From time to time, most of us have been drawn to write a something based on our own experiences. I have often been so te...
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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Playing Tennis with the Net Down

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By Bonnie Stanard Robert Frost was quoted as saying, “Writing in free verse is like playing tennis with the nets down.” I would ask, I...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Put More Drama Into Your Writing—Creating Conflict in Your Dialogue

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By Chris Mathews Dialogue in writing can set mood and establish character, but without one essential quality dialogue can also derail ...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

First Amendment Blues

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By Laura P. Valtorta Recently I’ve been pondering our American right to free speech, guaranteed by the First Amendment, and how our Am...
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

It Starts With a Good Sentence

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By Kimberly Johnson To borrow a phrase…it starts with a good sentence. That’s what I’m searching for this week. With a key...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

Find Your Magic

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  By Leigh Stevenson We choose to write in a way that speaks to us. Fantasy, history, memoir, essay, fiction, non-fiction, Twitter, Face...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

A Tome, Extensive Research and a Good Story

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By Alex Raley Big books were the norm in college and graduate school.  I also read such books for pleasure, but as I moved forward in t...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

I've No Idea if There Are Devils in Your Details, But Dollars to Donuts, There Be Money in Your Minutiae!

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By Shaun McCoy If there's one thing I'm not, it's detail oriented. When dealing with my car keys and anniversaries I'm a...
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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Quotations on Writing

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By Bonnie Stanard I was skimming though Kim Byer’s website ( http://www.paperapron.com ) and read about her fascination with quotes. I l...
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Monday, May 28, 2012

A Plea to Storytellers: Never Forget!

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By Shaun McCoy If you're reading this, ironically, you're probably a writer. I've got to tell you, my brothers and sister...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Defeating the Blank Page with Misty Berries, Webs, and Fading Outlines

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By Amanda Simays Some people can start typing the beginning of a story and write all the way through until the end. I am not one of th...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Put More Drama in Your Writing—Using Dialogue to Define Character and Set the Mood

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By Chris Mathews One important way to put more drama in your writing is to understand the language of drama, dialogue.  Fiction and non...