Innovative Editing

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

I’m honestly not sure if “Attitude: The Writer’s Final Frontier” makes sense or not. Nor am I going to speculate too much about it. I’ve be

Regardless of the subject matter, the title of author should sound noteworthy – even imposing – when it carries as much responsibility as it

If this week’s focus on attitude sounds a lot like last week’s topic – writitude – you’re both right and wrong. Writitude, which is being gr

For years, I swore I would never get on Pinterest: that it was a ginormous waste of any sane intellectual’s time. Then I got on it to promo

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

Happy Thanksgiving, my fellow writers! I hope you find joy in your turkey and stuffing, your days off and your family members. And if the t

Some of you are going to find my writing horribly cheesy this holiday week. Consider yourself forewarned. Normally, I hate cheesy holiday g

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

For Tuesday’s Definition of “writing retreat,” I spent plenty of paragraphs describing how amazing these getaways can be. Oh, they’re so lov

Today, I’ve asked Tony Ceraso to fill in for me. Founder of Home School Astronomy (www.HomeSchoolAstronomy.com) and author of its array of a

What do you think of when you hear the term “writing retreat?” Let’s analyze it a bit. From a purely analytical, grammatically minded persp

Nobody journals anymore, right? That’s something our old-fashioned ancestors did because they didn’t have anything better to do with their

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

Ready to showcase your skills, creative writer? Or non-fiction writer? Hey, the writing competition spectrum is wide open! Which is why the

Writers (and editors) can do well with a few doses of humility thrown into their lives here and there. It’s a great quality to put on in the

The beauty of writing competitions is that they’re really quite simply explained. Which is exactly what this week’s Definition shows. Writi

Last week, I stumbled upon Rob Roy, a 1995 movie starring Liam Neeson. Set in 1731, it has a Braveheart-ish feel to it since it’s set in Sco

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

Here’s your Writing Challenge of the Week, writers. Get it solidly into your heads that writers’ conferences can eat you alive. That might