Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Sharon May According to LiteraryTerms.com, “a symbol is literary device that contains several layers of meaning, often concealed ...

By Kasie Whitener This week I had two stories were rejected from two different journals. In “Amy Runs,” the main character goes ...

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

By Bonnie Stanard Nobody asks Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates why they do what they do. Or Hillary Clinton or Michael Bloomberg. For that m...

By Olga Agafonova If I have a muse, she kicks in at the same time caffeine is absorbed into my bloodstream. On occasion, I can be co...

By Raegan Teller It took me three years to write my first mystery novel, Murder in Madden. During that time, I worked with several ...

By Sharon May Imagine starting a story and having no clue as to where or when it takes place. You would feel as if you were floating...

By Kasie Whitener In entrepreneurship, my other profession, business ventures evolve through iterations. A company tests an idea wit...

By Sharon May One morning my spouse, Peggy, asked me if I thought Stephen King was insane. Not your typical morning coffee question. ...

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

By Raegan Teller Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about telling stories, which is natural, I guess, considering I’m an author. Recen...

By Kasie Whitener A long time ago in a leadership camp, I completed an exercise called the Lion, the Owl, and the St Bernard. After ...

By Mike Long I write Western Era historical fiction. My first book was a self-published manuscript. The next two were picked up ...

By Sharon May In the poem “Theme for English B,” Langston Hughes asks “So will my page be colored that I write?” I can’t help but wo...

Bonnie Stanard In preparing for an appearance at the SC State Library , I asked myself if my novel What MissingMeans is autobiogra...

By Kasie Whitener Last week I quit a novel. Not one I’m writing, one I was reading. Ranking right up there with when I stopped calli...

By Raegan Teller Several years ago, I participated in a writing workshop with the late Jerry Cleaver, author of Immediate Fiction . A...

Meet the Newest Columbia II Blogger RAEGAN TELLER Raegan Teller is an award-winning mystery author in Columbia, SC, where she lives w...