Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Kasie Whitener The strangest thing happened last week as I traveled to and from Denver and then to and from Northern Virginia. My ...

By Kimberly Johnson   Taylor Swift ’ s anthem,  " Bad Blood,"   weaves a tale of a good relationship gone badly. " ‘ C...

By Bonnie Stanard   In a recent email that came across my desk, Amazon makes another pitch to writers. It offers Kindle Scout , “a re...

By Ginny Padgett SCWW will present a four-part webinar series beginning September 12. Go to www.myscww.org/ to register. The fee for e...

By Chris Mathews Brenda Ueland in If You Want to Write, A Book About Art, Independence, and Spirit , copyrighted first in 1938, inspi...

By Jodie Cain Smith Yes, I hope this blog gets sick, contagious, viral. So, when looking to contaminate the Internet with my next st...

By Kasie Whitener My drafts are usually 85% dialogue. I get characters in a room, get them talking, and see what happens. During revi...

By Rex Hurst In December of 1922 Ernest Hemingway was in Switzerland covering the Lausanne Peace Conference for a Canadian Newspaper...

By Laura P. Valtorta                                      Who will save me from these loud-talking Italians? Will it be Hanya Yana...

By Jodie Cain Smith As an author who wants to sell books, I occasionally deal with the public.  At a recent signing, attendance was s...

By Julia Rogers Hook It’s been quite a summer for news in South Carolina lately. We’ve had the tragic Charleston massacre and then ...

By Kasie Whitener Three of my four beta readers have reported back and their comments have disappointed me. Two had trouble stayi...

By Rex Hurst I try to hone my writing skills by reading a lot and observing how others writers put their words together. I do this quit...

By Kimberly Johnson Denissa is a friend of a friend.   She has, umm, an unusual vocabulary. While eating from the riblet basket at Ap...

By Bonnie Stanard After reading Seize the Day years ago, I could hardly put together a sentence until I got over its effect. Saul Be...

By Kasie Whitener After seeing Avengers: Age of Ultron, my husband and I sat in a restaurant quietly staring into space. The film e...

Meet a New Columbia II Blogger REX HURST Rex Hurst is a writer and a university instructor orginally from Buffalo, NY. After 30 year...

By Rex Hurst I often talk to my students or other aspiring authors about producing material. They ask me what I’m working on and I as...

By Len Lawson   Photo by Sumter County Gallery of Art Ekphrastic poetry is poetry based on works of art. I recently gave...