Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Mike Long Until recently I’ve steadfastly resisted giving any of my books away.   Sure, I sent copies to folks for reviews (with m...

By Fred Fields "If you want to sell books and make money, 'how to' sells better than fiction, at least until you're f...

By Michelle Gwynn Jones When it comes to character development, I have no problem coming up with the main character and the secon...

By Laura P. Valtorta Art begets art. Painting has intercourse with music and produces poetry. Playwriting marries the Philharmonic and t...

By Alex Raley Often people, even in our writer’s group, say they don’t understand poetry, or they know nothing about poetry. How can t...

By Chris Mathews Conflict is the ticking time bomb in riveting writing.  We may not all be writers, but we are all amateur psychologis...

Meet a New Columbia II Blogger LEN LAWSON               Len Lawson first began his writing career by winning 3 rd place in a mi...

By Len Lawson After high school and college, not many of us have the desire to read classic novels again or anything associated with c...

By Laura P. Valtorta The backyard birds help me to write – especially the cardinals and house wrens (those brown birds that look as th...

By Kimberly Johnson Dear Classified Ads Manager at the Daily Bugle: My television script is going to be the next big thing, you kn...

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 ...