Columbia Writers' Workshop II

by Kasie Whitener   Last week I had the longest conversation I’ve had with my agent since she said she wanted to sign me. We spoke for nearl...

By Sharon Ewing I believe the reason some writers have dismissed the value of journaling is due to its definition.  Webster defines journali...

  original post December 2014, updated for 2022 By Kasie Whitener The top resolution every year is to lose weight. It’s not a coincidence th...

B y El Ochiis A college friend, Droad, decided to make a film that we’d enter into a festival to win some prize money. I’d write the story...

By Sharon May Kentucky author, Ed McClanahan died November 27, 2021. Known for his bawdy sense of humor, he was a character in his own righ...

By Kasie Whitener When I was in undergrad, the structure for a fiction workshop class at university was to read a dozen short stories and t...

By Lis Anna-Langston Before I could write full-time, I worked at a greeting card company. Christmas started in May when catalogs and holiday...

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...