By Rita Lewis. I recently went on vacation for a month in the French Alps. (Tough, I know, but someone has to do it!) When I set off, I had optimistic plans for lots of productive, sunshine-y writing sessions on some mountainside. I took laptop, notes, paper and pens and pencils. I was ready.
By Andrea Wenger. Romance is one of the best-selling genres in publishing — a billion-dollar industry featuring stories of tension and heart-stopping emotion. Yet it’s frequently dismissed as nothing more than a guilty pleasure.
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[...]