Columbia Writers' Workshop II

DEAN CROKE Dean and sister, Sharon Dean’s adventuresome spirit has led him from stints in the Caribbean, where he spent nine ye...

By Dean Croke "Get into the flow," as Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi, author of  Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience , woul...

By Leigh Stevenson I have created a Vision Board. I reveal this at the risk of sounding woo-woo to the uninitiated. My reason is not...

By Shaun McCoy In part I of this article we discussed how human relationships can be revealed by showing differing levels of reciproca...

By Chris Mathews Writing non-fiction does not have to be a dry, pedestrian venture. In fact, in today’s internet world, original way...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...