Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Jodie Cain Smith I admit it. I have a girl crush. And this flame has burned for two decades. So, what dazzling creature gained m...

By Kasie Whitener I’ve been querying my GenX novel After December to small press publishers. I made the decision after doing an agent...

By Kimberly Johnson Truth be told, I have been looking for clever ways to add Adam Levine into my blog.  I found it—an entry that s...

By Bonnie Stanard For some time I thought that a sympathetic protagonist meant only likeable ones. And the advice I got from intervie...

By Kasie Whitener I was forty-five pages in before I finally realized what was wrong with Resurrection Impure . It’s one of the boo...

By Jodie Cain Smith Why do I write? The answer begins in early April 2003. Employed as a puppeteer (that’s an entirely different ...

By Laura P. Valtorta Recently I got invited to deliver a pitch to the A&E channel, and I ’ m very nervous about it. The prize is ...

By Leigh Stevenson We often think of artists, whether painters, actors, writers, musicians, dancers, et al. as endlessly creative. Ho...

Meet a New Columbia II Blogger BRIAN BARR Brian Barr is an American author of novels, short stories, and comic books. Brian has been ...

By Brian Barr “Your comics are good, man. You should just write more mainstream stuff, you know? Stuff that sells big on the market. Fo...

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...