Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Len Lawson I was asked recently a familiar question to authors... So how do I go about writing a book? Below I leave tips fo...

By Kimberly Johnson     I’m always looking for a good laugh. I tried watching Last Comic Standing on NBC. I parked my remote on the ...

By Leigh Stevenson I am often asked by non-writer friends where I get my ideas. “Do they come from real life? Do they come from your im...

By Jodie Cain Smith Fred Fields pointed out in his post “ Website Tips ” that a website is critical to an author’s success. However, ...

By Ginny Padgett This blog site is the domain of Columbia II, a chapter of the South Carolina Writers’ Workshop. During the three yea...

By Len Lawson As an English professor, every year I offer my students an argumentative essay based on the topic, "Should the n-wor...

By Laura P. Valtorta I don’t suffer from writer’s block. Too many ideas. But I do suffer from format block, style block, and diarrh...

By Kimberly Johnson Aaagh. I cannot break through this peat-filled bog—I’m trapped and I cannot craft an introduction for this blog. In th...

By Mike Long Author Richard Prosch and I are fortunate to have short stories in the new Western anthology from High Hill Press, namely ...

By Bonnie Stanard At workshop we critics often disagree about what makes good/bad writing. Some of us defend poor grammar and punctua...

By Jodie Cain Smith  Unless you want your book to die a lonely, dusty death, rotting on the shelf until the pages decompose, selling yo...

By Kimberly Johnson Uncle Sunny done it. The Frank Sinatra-singing Lothario choked the life out of the old ladies with Venetian bli...

By Ginny Padgett The SCWW website has some great advantages for members beyond general information and conference registration. ...

By Laura P. Valtorta Boubacar Traore. Amadou and Miriam. Tinariwen. Sure, the Malian music playing at our house is cool and helps me wr...

By Kimberly Johnson Best Supporting Actress Lupita Nyong’o wore a gown at the Oscars that fashionistas are still talking about.   ...

By Bonnie Stanard As a writer of historical fiction, I am disturbed by Andrew Delbanco’s claim that a novelist using historical charact...

By Fred Fields  Writing is a more difficult task than neophytes imagine. Getting "A" on your essay in 12 th grade English is ...

By Laura P. Valtorta Screen writing involves more collaboration than writing a novel or a poem. To be serious at all, the writer need...

By Jodie Cain Smith   Without a shred of scientific evidence, I proclaim that any writer who says he or she does not struggle on occa...