
Songwriting 101 by Matthew Hawk Eldridge
If you read my previous article, I hopefully convinced you to try songwriting. There are a few basics to…
March 1, 2018If you read my previous article, I hopefully convinced you to try songwriting. There are a few basics to…
March 1, 2018All roads to the finding an agent and the dream of publishing led through the Conference. I’d planned, scraped…
February 24, 2018Our romantic heroine, Tovah, is about to meet her match. She’s a Jewish rabbi who fears rejection because of…
February 24, 2018With my cursor at Chapter 1 in my WWII historical fiction novel, I hit Ctrl+Enter and sighed. Beginning a book…
February 22, 2018Great writing is great writing! Right? Yes, but writing for children does have challenges that are different from…
February 21, 2018Please stop using pronouns wrong! Between you and I, I’m sick of people using the wrong pronoun. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong!…
February 19, 2018You never would have thought of such a thing on your own. It had to be God. He gave…
February 19, 2018One of the first writing rules I learned in journalism school is that you have to know your audience. …
February 15, 2018I’m sane. I don’t even have a tin-foil hat. I rarely can even find foil when I need it…
February 14, 2018Magazine editors are experts in their publication. I know this fact because I’ve been a magazine editor a couple…
February 13, 2018February is the month that has the honor of hosting Valentine’s Day, also called Feast of Saint Valentine, an…
February 12, 2018When you tell others that you are a writer, one image appears in their mind: you crowded over a…
February 11, 2018For many, the new year often comes with aspirations of drafting a brand-new novel. Each new idea creates the…
February 7, 2018A new year is normally a time of reflection, of goal-setting, of looking forward to possibilities. That’s normally the…
February 7, 2018Marathon runners and novelists share one thing in common. They both have to deal with “hitting the wall.” Although…
February 5, 2018“… a hermitage, which is about an acre of ground—an island, planted with all variety of trees, shrubs and…
February 3, 2018Content Marketing (noun) def: marketing that tries to attract customers by distributing informational content potentially useful to the target…
January 30, 2018Here’s what we know so far about Susie, our romantic heroine. We’ve made her Jewish, with fears of rejection,…
January 26, 2018Matt Brough is a lot of things. He’s a father, a husband, a pastor, and a sports fan. He’s…
January 15, 2018What if you could write a magazine article which could be published year after year in different publications? These…
January 13, 2018It’s a new year. For some writers it is an opportunity to pick up a previous work that had…
January 9, 2018It’s a new year, and we all know what that means: resolutions! Love them or hate them, we all…
January 6, 2018When Benjamin Stillingfleet rejected the norms of 18th century polite society, for the graver pursuits of learning and literature—and…
January 3, 2018I didn’t speak until I was three years old. To everyone’s relief, I finally talked and did so in…
December 30, 2017Meghan’s Choice, is Donna L.H. Smith’s debut novel. Donna serves A3 as a regular columnist since the beginning, first…
December 28, 2017