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Today, I fully plan on being a tease. But it’s for your own good, creative writer. Your good and the good of your next National Novel Writin

Dear Creative Writer, We interrupt your regularly programmed list of Definitions, Challenges and Rules to discuss NaNoWriMo. Here’s what it

Innovative Editing started a new series on Pinterest a few weeks ago called the “Genuine Writer.” It involves a series of inspirations and e

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

We writers strive to be as clear as possible in what we publish. We have a certain message, and we want to convey it – a worthwhile mission

The Definition of the Week this time around is for the word “tone.” It’s something you automatically have whenever you write, even if we don

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

Our creative writing-related word of the week is “bias” this time around. And for once, our free-for-all Monday and Wednesday blog posts fit

The Definition of the Week this time around is for the word “bias.” This is something that came up two weeks ago when we were focusing on ho

It’s 9/11 today, and I have an open blog spot. As such, it seems wrong to refrain from writing about the list of loved ones taken from us to

I’m going to call out a fellow writer today, and I’m going to do it directly for a change since he’s a non-fiction author. Simply put, those

On my computer, on one page of an Excel spreadsheet, there’s a list of blog post topics I’d either like to eventually write about or once th

Did you ever participate in the epic pastime of people-watching? It’s when you sit back and take in your fellow human beings, observing what

Being on Pinterest and various Facebook writer’s groups, I’ve long-since known that certain authors and aspiring authors approach character

Believe it or not, manuscript editors like me end up interacting with a lot of truly hurt or hurting people with very painful pasts or prese

If you want to know how much time you waste during the day – time you could spend working on that creative writing or autobiographical or no

I’ve recently been informed by a close but potentially unreliable source of mine that Dirty Politics 1: The Politician’s Pawn has “too many

Bring on the English-major flak, because I’m taking on a literary icon for Wednesday’s blog post! And unlike with Monday’s post, I’m naming

When it comes to creative writing, particularly novel writing, there are just some errors that should not be published – at least three of w

Writing out a surprise story ending can sound like a really great idea in theory, and sometimes it can play out perfectly in practice too.