Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By El Ochiis It’s my humble opinion that behind great pieces of writing, is an even greater editor.    No, Tolstoy, I don’t believe...

By Sharon May Some people are hurriedly drafting works about living in a pandemic. You may be one of them. Occasionally, the thought ...

Ruth P. Saunders  I must confess at the outset that my muse has deserted me, and I don’t know if its absence is a temporary or a p...

By Kasie Whitener For the last three episodes of Write On SC, Rex Hurst and I have been discussing Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the nat...

By El Ochiis I wrote a short story that took place in the 1850’s, in which one of the characters possessed an advanced, technological...

By Bonnie Stanard If it weren’t for the seven-figure advance Jeanine Cummins received for her novel American Dirt , I’d feel sorry fo...

By Sharon May I have enjoyed reading quotations since I was a child, reading them just like I read the World Book Encyclopedia . Bore...

By Jerry D. Pate I have written an historical-fiction account of a cotton mill based on the inspiration of my late mother-in-law. She...

By Kasie Whitener   For the first time in our 30-year history, SCWA is hosting its Annual Conference in Columbia. I have the privileg...

By Sharon May Don’t mean to be morbid, but, inevitably, I will die, and I worry I won’t attain my writing goals. Health and age are b...

Enjoy this recycled post from 2017. By Shaun McCoy I wanted to take a brief time out to come clean here. Think of this as an in...

By Bonnie Stanard “Close To You,” a song made popular by the Carpenters in the '70s, could well describe a change in narrative vo...

By Raegan Teller At book signings, people often tell me they aspire to do what I do: publish a book and see their name on the cover. Th...

By Ruth P. Saunders Am I a writer  or a person who sometimes writes? According to Wikipedia, “ A  writer  is a person who uses  w...

By El Ochiis There was this little place in downtown Manhattan that showed art - house films or “little cult gems” as they called the...

By Kasie Whitener After workshop last week, I spent 45 minutes digging through boxes of old CDs looking for the Haydn trumpet solo ...