Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Sharon May My writing has taken two forms over the years -- academic essays and fiction. In pursing degrees in English and America...

By Laura P. Valtorta www.gattafilms.com www.thearthousemovie.webs.com www.laurapv.wordpress.com                                  ...

By Bonnie Stanard The 1670s in France is the setting for a story I’m working on about a traveling troupe of actors. As soon as a conv...

By Kasie Whitener Admittedly, I am a binge kind of person. I’ve been known to watch 13 hours of football on a single Saturday and foll...

By Laura P. Valtorta www.gattafilms.com www.thearthousemovie.webs.com laurapv.wordpress.com Currently I am writing a novel abou...

By Olga Agafonova At the beginning of September, I finished the first draft of my screenplay. My goal now is to revise and polish it ...

Meet a New Columbia II Blogger SHARON MAY Sharon May was born in Appalachia, specifically Eastern Kentucky, the granddaughter of a c...

By Sharon May I have set a retirement date for my job as an instructor of English at a local technical college, and my spouse demands I ...

By Ginny Padgett When I went to my first writers’ conference in 2010, I learned about an Elevator Pitch, which is a one- to two-minut...

By Laura P. Valtorta www.gattafilms.com www.thearthousemovie.webs.com laurapv.wordpress.com A few weeks ago my granddaughter, G...

By Kasie Whitener A single character’s perspective limits the story. Motivations and realizations that occur for other characters mus...

By Julia Rogers Hook For most of my writing life, I have been a “rip and read” writer. I’m a journalist and for many years I w...

By Kasie Whitener   Everything I know about boxing I learned from the Rocky movies. The gritty character of Philadelphia boxer R...

By Laura P. Valtorta www.gattafilms.com www.thearthousemovie.webs.com                                       Our trip to the Tar...

By Bonnie Stanard White writers who produce novels with black protagonists will find it near impossible to attract a publisher. This,...

By Kasie Whitener   I got sucked into an Aaron Sorkin YouTube video and spent 41 minutes listening to him talk about writing. The tim...

By Jodie Cain Smith For novelists, making the transition from story creation to web content can be tricky. Fiction writing requires t...

By Rex Hurst  You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you ...

By Olga Agafonova In an effort to put my writing life into higher gear, I spent some time looking at writers’ retreats for people who...

By Kasie Whitener In swimming, an IM’er is a well-rounded athlete. “IM” is Individual Medley and the event means the swimmer races al...