Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Raegan Teller Creative types talk about having a muse, and I used to wonder what they meant. Is a muse an actual person? In Greek ...

By Sharon May I imagine professional writers sitting for long hours each day, pounding out words. Actually, most writers have other obliga...

By Bonnie Stanard The Plum Tree Tavern   publishes poetry that focuses on “ specific images of physical nature...[which are] preferre...

By Kasie Whitener I just delivered a “ Fan Fictions Basics ”  class on Outschool wherein I told three tween girls to think about a sp...

By Sharon May Recently, I’ve had two occasions to discover more about dialect. First, I “zoomed in” on the SCWA Summer Series, which ...

By El Ochiis Cats are mascots for writers. More importantly, Edgar Allen Poe had one; Hemingway had twenty-three; and, TS Elliot wrot...

By Jerry Pate   When working on my book recently I hammered away over several days thinking Wow, this thing is moving!  only to dis...

Ruth P. Saunders Perhaps it was an encouraging word from a teacher that cleared your path to writing. Maybe reading the words of an a...

By Shaun McCoy I found some scant comfort, when watching armed protesters storm a state house without appropriate PPE, knowing tha...

By Raegan Teller At some point, every author must decide if their book is going to be a standalone book or the beginning of a series....

By Bonnie Stanard   Any one of my poems has been through hundreds of changes and revisions. Sometimes I’ll change one word, someti me...

By Sharon May Feedback is the goal for attending a writer’s workshop. We want to know what is effective and not effective in our draf...

By Kasie Whitener My favorite quarantine video has been the BBC’s rugby announcer narrating his dogs. The voice is familiar to watche...

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...