Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Kasie Witener I like the sex in the story. I read romance novels almost exclusively and I’m not embarrassed to say I like the sex scenes...

  By Sharon Ewing Writing a historical fiction novel about a real or imagined person becomes a journey of telling someone else’s story.  I u...

By Jodie Cain Smith Yes, this is a marketing post. We all know that authors must market. The hustle is part of the job, but the marketing ...

By El Ochiis Some of the greatest literary writers wrote philosophical fiction. I took a philosophy course in Athens , in college; actuall...

By Bonnie Stanard   There are those of us who call ourselves writers based not on the number of books we have written or sold but on the h...

By Kasie Whitener   When I joined the My Name is Not Bob Writers Platform Challenge in 2012, I had no idea what I would even tell people abo...

By Raegan Teller My introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) was the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the story, HAL is an AI compu...

By Sharon Ewing I’ve always been an avid reader beginning with picture books, illustrated classics, fairy tales, and even textbooks. As a ...

By El Ochiis Chapters tend to get little, if any, respect, yet, for most writers, they are a non-negotiable part of the novel-reading expe...

By Sharon May We all have those moments when a jolt of inspiration infuses our writing. A conversation had or overheard, a book read, a sun...

By Kasie Whitener My characters are real to me and I think I’ve written them authentically. But how can I know for sure? My own friendship...

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...