How to Make Your Creative Writing More Realistic – Part 1
If you want to make your creative writing more realistic, there are a number of options at your disposal. Today, we’re just going to focus o
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 23, 20183 min read
The Most Revolting Candy Ever and What You Need to Know About Travel Writing
As we’ve already discussed this week, being a travel writer writing a travel nonfiction book is awesome! Just as long as you don’t die in th
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 23, 20183 min read
What You Absolutely Must Do as a Travel Writer
You know the saying “live a little”? Well, as a travel writer, you get to live a lot!
That’s true whether you’re writing a travel nonfictio
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 22, 20183 min read
Why I Left Most of My Facebook Writers’ Groups
Are Facebook writers’ groups worth it?
In most cases, I would argue no. That response is based on the fact that I used to belong to about s
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 21, 20183 min read
“Oh, I Come From a Land, From a Far-Away Place”
Travel nonfiction books exist for a reason.
Why shouldn’t they when the world is so full of journeys to take and adventures to discover? Fo
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 17, 20183 min read
The Best Way to Write a Social and Cultural Issues Book
There are so many different groups and movements to cover in the social and cultural issues genre. And there are so many different motivatio
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 16, 20183 min read
An Interactive Challenge
Writing a social and cultural issues manuscript can be quite fun.
As with writing a historical nonfiction manuscript, by “fun,” Innovative
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 14, 20183 min read
A Lot Like Political Commentary – Except Different
Try looking up the definition of the social and cultural issues genre anywhere else outside of Innovative Editing. If you do, you might find
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 13, 20183 min read
Suspense and Points of View
Let’s say you’re working with multiple points of view in your story. Four of them to be precise. You’ve got:
Character A, the strong, silen
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 10, 20183 min read
Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight – and Other Rules to Writing Political Commentary
As with any other kind of genre-specific book-composing efforts, writing political commentary has its guidelines and rules.
This only makes
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 9, 20183 min read
Know Thy Enemy!
We began discussing what’s involved in writing a political commentary book on Tuesday. How you can be snarky or serious, factual or downrigh
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 8, 20183 min read
Calling All Male Writers Writing Female Characters Wrong
Editor’s Note: Talking about male writers writing female characters wrong is tricky.
For one, Innovative Editing has young readers. And thi
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 7, 20183 min read
When Writing Political Commentary Books
Last week, we covered true crime writing. So it only makes sense that we follow up with a closely related topic: writing political commentar
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 6, 20182 min read
Can You Have Too Much Action In Your Plot?
I’m currently reading a novel by a very well-known fantasy author who I like quite a bit. At least I like his one series quite a bit. I’m no
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 3, 20183 min read
True Crime Writing From a True Crime Writer’s Perspective
For this particular Innovative Editing Writing Rule, we’re going to rely heavily on a Writer’s Digest article from 2015.
That’s a bit dated
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 2, 20183 min read
Successful True Crime Writers Are More Than Writers Alone
If you’re a true crime writer – or if you’re looking to be a true crime writer writing true crime books – you have to be more than just a wr
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 31, 20182 min read
When Writing in the True Crime Genre, Don’t Call It the Good Stuff
I’d say we’re getting to the good stuff of the nonfiction world. Except that writing in the true crime genre is exactly that: writing about
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 30, 20183 min read
What’s Wrong With Christian and Anti-Christian Fiction Alike
On Tuesday, July 17, I went to Barnes and Noble for my bi-monthly Genuine Writer Meetup group. While there, I did a bad thing: I bought two
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 27, 20182 min read
The Other Benefit of Being an Open-Minded Historical Nonfiction Writer
Yesterday, we talked about how much fun it is to be an open-minded historical fiction writer.
And it is fun. So much so!
Being open-minded
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 26, 20183 min read
Let the Fun Begin!
Okay. This is a fun one.
Admittedly, it’s the nerdy kind of fun. We’re not talking about “cool” stuff like going out dancing with your frie
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