By Don Vaughan It’s been a few months since the membership of Heart of Carolina Romance Writers (HCRW) joined Triangle Association of Freelancers (TAF), and the TAF Board of Directors would like to extend a formal welcome to this wonderful group of writers. They have brought tremendous joy and enthusiasm with them and have helped make TAF one of the best writing organizations in North Carolina. Some people have asked how this arrangement came to be. HCRW used to be under the [...]
From Pixabay by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke By Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld, ProlificPulse.com Triangle Association of Freelancers presents WriteNow! 2025, a one-day, in-person conference on May 17th at the McKimmon Center at North Carolina State University. Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld will be presenting “Using Poetry to Elevate Journalistic Writing.” In this post, she gives us a preview of her talk. At the heart of every good story is the pulse of poetry. T.S. Eliot As a teacher of[...]
By Domanie Spencer. Image by pexels-helloaesthe - “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 indeed a way to be more than one thing. I 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 [...]