Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Sharon May Almost 40 years ago, workers in a small town in Kentucky uncovered human bones. The next day, a retired sheriff confessed...

Meet a New Columbia II Blogger NICK ROLON I dedicate my first blog post to my mother, Teresa, who has been battling brain cancer for...

By Nick Rolon           Writer Somerset Maugham, once said “If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sin...

By Kasie Whitener On last week’s episode of Write On SC , we discussed the challenge of writing the middle of the story. Often, ...

By Rex Hurst Now while this statement seems almost self-evident, it’s practically a tautology, I’ve noticed a current trend in the t...

By Raegan Teller At a recent signing event, another author said to me, “Selling books is hard.” When he walked away, I felt a bit over...

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

By Kasie Whitener I co-hosted the Open Mic on Saturday night at the Pawley’s Island Conference with my friend Mary Sturgill. What I l...

By Bonnie Stanard When I was in college I wrote a story in which a girl talked to the reader about her life in a vague and unexcepti...

By Rex Hurst For the three of you who know who I am, then you also know that one of the two genres I write in is science fiction. Al...

By Sharon May So you are interested in dialect. You must be one of those writer fellers, trying to figure people out so you can crea...

By Jodie Cain Smith I believe fear is healthy, for the most part. Fear prevents us from petting poisonous snakes, hugging sharks, an...

By Kasie Whitener This is a summary of my talk given at The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Lowcountry Book Club Convention on October ...

By Raegan Teller Let me begin with a confession. Until recently, I turned my nose up at short fiction. I admit it. I was a novel ...

Meet Another Columbia II Blogger TRAVIS PAGE Travis graduated from White Knoll High School in 2007.   In college he studied Mech...

By Travis Page I am only 29 years-old, but I’ve taken on many new endeavors over this past decade of my life: powerlifting, bodybuildi...

By Kasie Whitener The very best fantasy novels all have a faith structure. The faith structure is the myths, legends, and religi...

By Sharon May  I assume that all writers try to be observant of the world around us. The more I write, the more I try to notice deta...