Step 3 in Picking Your Book’s Perfect Front Cover
Yesterday, we talked about the first two steps in picking your book’s perfect front cover. They were researching your genre and analyzing yo
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Jeannette DiLouie
Dec 8, 20173 min read
How Important Is Your Book Title Really?
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 If you’re unpublished, your bo
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Jeannette DiLouie
Dec 1, 20173 min read
Publishing Success Stories and the Power of Positive Attitudes
We touched on this topic with yesterday’s positive attitude-focused Writing Challenge, I know. But your publishing success is more than wort
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Jeannette DiLouie
Nov 24, 20173 min read
You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Blog Is About You
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Nov 17, 20172 min read
What to Expect in an Awesome and Worthwhile Writing Retreat!
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Nov 10, 20173 min read
What Happens If You Don’t Win?
So you entered your manuscript into a writing competition. A certain pushy editor told you to in a certain pushy “quick questionnaire” – whi
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Jeannette DiLouie
Nov 3, 20173 min read
So You’re Going to Attend a Writers’ Conference, Huh?
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 20, 20173 min read
How Bad Grammar Makes Your Story Look Oh So Good
Teachers and editors are usually quick to warn against bad grammar like run-on sentences and incomplete sentences. They’re no good, the prof
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 19, 20173 min read
Tell Your Sentence Structure to Make Your Writing Look Good!
What can the creative writer-oriented definition of sentence structure do for you? This applies to all you non-fiction writers too, whether
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 13, 20173 min read
Plot Holes Are Worth Fixing, No Matter the Cost
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 6, 20173 min read
Hook! Hook! Where’s the Narrative Hook?
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Sep 29, 20173 min read
Creative Writers, Beware! NaNoWriMo Can Kill!
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Sep 22, 20173 min read
My Editorial Take on Your Writing Tone… How Much Does It Matter?
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Sep 15, 20173 min read
Bias Is Inevitable, but Logical Fallacies Are Avoidable
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Sep 1, 20174 min read
Writing Rule #35: Authors, Know Thy Marketing Targets!
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 25, 20172 min read
The One or Two Times You Might Actually Need a Vanity Publisher
Even believing that there are decent, honest vanity publishers out there – which I’m sure there are. Somewhere – these professional publishi
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 18, 20173 min read
Self-Published Introverts, You Need to Pretend to Like People
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 11, 20173 min read
Here’s What It Means If Your Manuscript’s Query Letter Is Rejected
In order to address Innovative Editing’s literary agent/query letter/traditional publishing Part 2 Writing Rule of the week, we need to firs
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 4, 20173 min read
A Traditional Publishing Reality Check – and Challenge
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 28, 20174 min read
Why Your Published Manuscript Won't Wow Everyone
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
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