Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Bonnie Stanard I've been looking for a second copy of a Christmas music book I've owned for years. Recently, I went online as us...

B y El Ochiis My internal monologue plays out as heterosexual males; they are never one ethnic group. Sometimes he is European with pale sk...

By Kasie Whitener There were 250 Wattys winners, and I wasn’t one of them. Over the summer, I’d won the Broad River Prize for Prose and the...

By Sharon Ewing “ Writing is not a rational act.” I had just tuned to NPR in the car, and that statement surprised me into yelling at th...

By Bonnie Stanard Let's face it. The dead don't own anything, least of all their own story. And even if they wrote thousands of word...

By Lis Anna-Langston Sharon May wrote a great piece about revision last month. Revision is more than changing a word here and there was her...

By Kasie Whitener Last spring, I met an agent with whom I had immediate rapport. In our conversation, I mentioned that I was about to start...

By Sharon May There must be numerous badly developed characters written by the opposite gender, considering there are lots of posts online ...

B y El Ochiis Some novels take time to write. Just as one shouldn’t pan-fry brisket, sometimes one can’t hurry a novel that needs to be slo...

By Raegan Teller If you’ve read my previous blog posts, you know I’ve refocused my attention on writing and studying short fiction for the n...

By Kasie Whitener I don’t get nervous for Zoom events even when I’m hosting them. I pour a glass of wine and tuck my pajama’d legs underneat...

By Bonnie Stanard Magical realism (MR) incorporates the unbelievable into the world as we know it. In other words, we writers convince read...

By Sharon May “I’ve just finished my novel. Do I need to revise it?” asks one more person on an online writing forum. I know where the inqu...

B y El Ochiis I had an English professor who was considered an eccentric by New York standards;  he collected shopping bags. His position wa...

Meet a New Columbia II Writer LIS ANNA-LANGSTON  Lis Anna-Langston was raised along the winding current of the Mississippi River on a steady...

By Lis Anna-Langston My third year at a Creative and Performing Arts School, I came to a crossroads. Home was chaotic and I took up study at...

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...