Image by Suprising_SnapShots from Pixabay by Domanie Spencer. www.KerningEditorial.com “I wouldn't worry about it – just use a pen name. Get your writing out there!” Couched within this exuberant advice from a well-published writer, the too-easy flippancy of it all escaped me. Of course! I thought naively. A pen name for every way to tell a story will solve all my problems. Fiction will know me as A, nonfiction will know me as B, and I shall submit poetry under C. There was [...]
Image by Pexels from Pixabay by Lee O’Connell “When I am in my room alone and I write Thoughts come easily, words come fluently then” ~ Sheldon Harnick If you’re not familiar with 1960s back-catalog Broadway musicals (Really? Just me?), that quote is from the song “Will He Like Me?” from the musical She Loves Me. I consider it the introvert’s manifesto. If you have seen the movies You’ve Got Mail with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, or The Shop Around the Corner [...]
Image from Pixabay by Ray Shrewsberry By Don Vaughan For much of my career, I stridently opposed writing for less than a professional rate. Pennies per word, I felt, was an insult. Writers deserve dollars. A few months ago, however, I had an epiphany: Sometimes the purpose of writing is about more than just the money. My change of heart came with the release of a new magazine titled Cryptology, which is devoted to horror comics, television, films, and related media. In [...]
Image from JDK from Pixabay by Maya SpikesExecutive Director, Triangle Association of Freelancers It’s time to look back on 2024 and the many special moments for TAF and its members. Here are some of the highlights:April marked the return of Write Now!, our popular spring writing conference. Our keynote speakers were award-winning science fiction/horror author Nicole Givens Kurtz and Writer’s Digest editor-in-chief Amy Jones.Conference sessions included: “The [...]