Innovative Editing

Yesterday, we talked about the first two steps in picking your book’s perfect front cover. They were researching your genre and analyzing yo

How important is your book title? For real… Well, like we covered earlier this week, these things do matter. If you’re unpublished, your bo

We touched on this topic with yesterday’s positive attitude-focused Writing Challenge, I know. But your publishing success is more than wort

Do you know that writers have superpowers? Well, we do. We have the ability to create whole entire worlds and put bad guys away. We can mak

So you’ve determined that a writing retreat is right for you. You even already signed up for updates about Lia Mack and Jeannette DiLouie’s

So you entered your manuscript into a writing competition. A certain pushy editor told you to in a certain pushy “quick questionnaire” – whi

Yesterday, I wrote that it’s so important to have confidence if you’re going to attend a writers’ conference. This is particularly true “if

Teachers and editors are usually quick to warn against bad grammar like run-on sentences and incomplete sentences. They’re no good, the prof

What can the creative writer-oriented definition of sentence structure do for you? This applies to all you non-fiction writers too, whether

Okay, creative writer. So you’ve taken my editorial advice and went looking through your manuscript for a plot hole. And you found one. Now

How do you find your narrative hook? Well, it’s probably not in stealing movie lines from Dustin Hoffman films. (And shame on you if you don

I left you with the most dire of warnings on Tuesday: Creative writers, beware: NaNoWriMo can kill! And I firmly stand by that statement. N

I ended yesterday’s writing-related, tone-focused Challenge on something of a cliffhanger. That wasn’t part of my evil editorial plan, but i

Writing Rule #36 doesn’t shy away from being biased. In fact, it readily acknowledges it. We’ve all got our opinions, or biases. We’ve all

For today’s Writing Rule, we’re going to delve a little more deeply into something I touched on for yesterday’s writing-related, marketing-f

Even believing that there are decent, honest vanity publishers out there – which I’m sure there are. Somewhere – these professional publishi

As a self-published author, as a professional and as a person, being a salesperson is not my natural forte. And it’s not just because I’m an

In order to address Innovative Editing’s literary agent/query letter/traditional publishing Part 2 Writing Rule of the week, we need to firs

There’s a lot of writing-circle myths and legends out there about what it’s like to be traditionally published. I addressed and corrected a

I know I’ve been dishing out a lot of tough writing love these last few weeks about your manuscript, saying that your first draft might be b