Columbia Writers' Workshop II

  By Bonnie Stanard   Can’t live with it. Can’t live without it. Is a great relationship going bad?   We writers, ignored by NYC’s legacy pu...

By Sharon May To learn about using social media as a writer, I started following some writing groups on Facebook and Instagram. On one group...

By Jerry D Pate   In his Fiction Writing Master Class, William Cane encourages new writers to copy the styles of various writers until they ...

By Shaun McCoy   We huddled around the table, shoulders hunched, our faces hovering over heaping plates of pad thai and panang curry. It was...

By Kasie Whitener   The first question in the exercise is, “Who are you?” and while it’s only three words, the question is a really big one....

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...