Columbia Writers' Workshop II

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

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

By Kasie Whitener Jodie was right . NaNoWriMo is a crazy gluttony of wordtopia. Volunteers commit to producing 50,000 words in the mont...

By Jodie Cain Smith If I had my druthers, NaNoWriMo would find a tall cliff and plunge into the great hereafter. I have given it a t...

By Olga Agafonova Back at the end of October, I got a professional screenwriter to review my first screenplay. The good news: the sci...

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

By Kasie Whitener Anyone can tell a story. Seriously. It’s part of human DNA and unique to our species that we use stories to relate, l...

By Sharon May As an Appalachian writer, I read lots of Appalachian fiction, and my favorite authors of this genre are Lee Smith, Silas...

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...