Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By El Ochiis When critics read my writing, they comment that it reads like a television or movie script.  Both genres use dialogue judicious...

By Sharon May Writer’s block is one’s inability to move to the next phase of the process. The writer is stuck. Is it a mental or emotional p...

By Raegan Teller The first time I read flash fiction, I immediately thought of my much-older brother, who was a professional photographer. W...

  By Bonnie Stanard It’s been said that Virginia Wolfe couldn’t write a bad sentence. Good for her, but I’m talking about me and my writing....

By Sharon May   We hear (or say) that all the time. Just what we’ve been looking for. We savor the moment, and then realize someone else alr...

By Ruth P. Saunders Creative nonfiction is factually based, and in contrast to other styles of nonfiction, should  engage the reader through...

b y   El Ochiis I had had a traumatic experience as a young college student, one that drastically impacted my writing life. For some time, I...

By Kasie Whitener   This past Thursday was #PitMad. Not sure what language that is? It’s Twitter speak and the “#” is called a “hashtag . ” ...

  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....