Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Raegan Teller \In a blog post I wrote nearly three years ago, “ In Praise of Short Fiction ,” I committed to honing my short fiction ski...

B y El Ochiis The great writers begin their stories with a killer hook which migrates into distinct blocks of text which section out a large...

By Sharon May Memoirs are hot as evidenced in the number being published. How to write one is an even hotter topic in writing communities as...

By Kasie Whitener   In this week’s episode of Write On SC , we talked about serialization. To “serialize” is to release your story in smalle...

By Bonnie Stanard I’ve been preparing comments to make when presenting a scholarship at a high school awards ceremony at Pelion (where I gra...

B y El Ochiis You think you care about what a book is about, but, really, you care how it sounds, even if that sound can only be heard in y...

By Sharon Ewing I’d been introduced to the works of famous authors throughout my educational career and while I loved to journal, never ide...

By Sharon May I see writers on Facebook ask why we decided to write. Most answers are meant to be humorous. Serious responses tend to be cr...

By Kasie Whitener My addiction to romance novels is well established. I read over 100 per year, mostly through Kindle Unlimited, all unapolo...

  B y Raegan Teller If you write short fiction for publication, you know that sometimes placing your story is as challenging, if not more so...

By J Dean Pate After fifteen years writing radio and TV news copy (way back in my 1960’s smoking and drinking days) my default style years ...

By Sharon May A friend of mine, who has read much of my novel in progress, loves the main character Lafe Yates. Once, he told me he saw a ma...

By Kasie Whitener In a central plot point to Thor: The Dark World , the nine realms align for a single moment and travel between them is ma...

By Sharon Ewing   I don’t have an English degree and never took a journalism course, so I suspected writing my first novel might not be an e...

  By El Ochiis I once read an article about the “Ten Rules of Writing Fiction” and one of them was to never begin the story with the weathe...

By Bonnie Stanard American Book Review has posted online “ Top Forty Bad Books .”  However, this is not a list. Rather, numerous college pr...

By Kasie Whitener I’m a swimmer. I started early, as a four-year-old on the six-and-under squad of my neighborhood team. When people ask...

Over the summer, a couple months into quarantine, 8-year-old Rin Windshadow had a great idea: a magazine with art and stories inspired by na...