Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Len Lawson I have this process I go through whenever I write a new poem or a new chapter of a novel. After I gain inspiration from...

By Jodie Cain Smith Sylvia Plath, Margaret Mitchell, J.D. Salinger, Emily Bronte, and Jodie Cain Smith? Lord, I pray not! I kno...

By Kimberly Johnson I’m so annoyed that I could curse. Should I use curse words when developing dialogue when my main character and h...

By Leigh Stevenson In the academic world, the arts are habitually lumped together in a rather generic category labeled 'Creative En...

By Kimberly Johnson Fahgeddaboutit if you eavesdropped on Tony Soprano’s plot to whack a rival mobster. Ain’t nothing goin’ on now...

By Len Lawson If you meander around any writing circles long enough, eventually you will hear the buzz word muse . What is it exactly...

By Marion Aldridge At some point in my life, I discovered I was a better writer than I was a preacher. Writing is an extension of, ...

By Laura P. Valtorta Last week I was editing the English subtitles for a new Indian screenwriter named Amit Mehra, from Mumbai. His n...

By Chris Mathews One of the most important but overused tools in the writer’s pouch is the flashback. Although fla...

By Jodie Cain Smith I’m aggravated. Something isn’t right. In fact, this is all wrong. I should be typing away at my desk, surrou...

By Bonnie Stanard Years ago when I first moved to a duplex in Uccle, Belgium, my French landlady, who spoke no English, ordered her...

By Mike Long Anyone reading this is either published or hopes to be, and therefore is or will be interested in getting reviews on the...

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...