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 [...]
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 [...]