Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Kasie Whitener   Hello, again, from my November madness. I’ve been NaNoWriMo-ing since the start of the month when I wrote this cheerful,...

Meet a New Columbia II Writer SHARON A EWING Sharon A. Ewin g is  a retired teacher with 30 years of experience, mostly in the elementary an...

By Sharon Ewing My retirement goal was to write a historical fiction novel. In my naivete, I couldn’t imagine the path from essay writing to...

By J Dean Pate One of my favorite writers, Columbia’s Bill Fox – Southern Fried — would bore-in and magnify and magnify again, peculiar trai...

By Jodie Cain Smith   Ah, writing in the time of Covid. Working in the time of Covid. Doing anything in the time of Covid. I won’t lie to yo...

By Kasie Whitener   It’s that time of year again! November is National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo  for those of us in the know, and al...

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...