Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Sarah Herlong So my mother loves my writing. What’s new, right? She really likes it because it’s about her. That’s right, I write a...

  By Sarah Herlong When my friend, Neil, was diagnosed with colon cancer I was a continent away. We would stay on the phone for hours ...

By Laura Puccia Valtorta The two types of independent films I’ve been crafting involve two different types of writing. With scripted...

By Leigh Stevenson It’s always been of interest to me what motivates writers. Where do they get their inspiration? Newspaper articles?...

By Alex Raley                                                                      We look for inspiration when we write. Often it...

By Shaun McCoy What happens to those writers, whom we all know and struggle not to be, that tell people at parties that they love to w...

By Kimberly Johnson To borrow a phrase or two from singer/songwriter John Mayer: “It’s better to say too much than to never…Say what yo...

Meet Our Newest Blogger SARAH HERLONG  Sarah spent 10 years on the west coast and hopes to return someday. She is currently writing ch...

  By Sarah Herlong One thing I find helpful in my writing is to keep a Job Bank. Everyone has been in an interesting workplace at some...

By Fred Fields Since his death in 2001, 23 new novels have been published in Robert Ludlum's name. Tom Clancy and James Patterson r...

By Fred Fields I used to be a public speaker. The first thing one must learn when speaking to a group, is "Don't put your...

By Bonnie Stanard Writers are artists. Even in a league that includes musicians, painters, dancers, actors, and sculptors, we’re near ...

By Kimberly Johnson Full disclosure--Maggie Smith’s acting is the reason why I watched Downton Abbey . The acclaimed actress plays Vio...

By Laura P. Valtorta All of us who attend South Carolina Writers’ Workshop, Columbia II, have thought now and again that Bonnie would ...

By Len Lawson Writing is hard. You first have to find time to write in your busy schedule, and when you do have time, you have to be i...

Structure in Storytelling By Chris Mathews For some of us, writing good sentences is not a challenge. We can do that. We write wit...

  By Ginny Padgett For those of you who are unfamiliar with our workshop’s origin, we are a chapter of South Carolina Writers’ Wor...

These are answers from members of our workshop to the question, “Why do you write?”   Writing began as a way t o defuse overpowering e...

By Kimberly Johnson Often glib and sometimes risqué, but she made a good point. That’s how I define Dear Abby ’s advice style. Str...

By Len Lawson     It is a crucial benefit for writers to discover the authors who have had the most significant influence on their work....