The Power of Basing Fiction off of True Events
Editor’s Note: The blog below was first published on August 15, 2016 , while the Rio de Janeiro Olympics were going on. That was quite the i
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Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 17, 20173 min read
How Much You Care About Your Story Premise Makes a Difference
Here’s Writing Rule #11, and it’s an important one to keep in mind.
Admittedly, all the writing rules are important to keep in mind. If the
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Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 16, 20174 min read
Does Your Story Premise Hold Up?
Today’s Writing Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is all about premise. And I’m just going to warn you
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Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 15, 20173 min read
A Creative Writer’s By-the-(Fifth)-Book Confession
On Monday morning, while writing Tuesday’s Definition of the Week, I had a shocking revelation.
I realized that I’ve killed off someone I k
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Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 14, 20173 min read
Your Story Literally Doesn’t Exist Without a Premise
Today’s Writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is “Premise.”
And the title above, “Your Story Lit
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Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 13, 20173 min read
A Dinosaur Is About to Eat You; Care to Talk About Your Feelings?
On Saturday, my older sister treated me to the Jurassic World exhibit at The Franklin Institute as my birthday present, where I got to meet
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Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 10, 20173 min read
Choose Your Fellow Short Story Writers Wisely… Or Else
We’re up to Writing Rule #10, a big milestone for 2017, clearly.
Yet, sarcasm aside, this really can change your writing career. If you han
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Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 9, 20173 min read
Writing a Short Story Might Actually Help You Publish Your Novel
Today’s Writing Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is pretty much a dare: a dare for you to write your
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Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 7, 20173 min read
There’s a Lot Packed Into a Short Story
Today’s Writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is “Short Story.”
At its most basic, a short story
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Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 6, 20173 min read
What’s Your Reason for Writing?
Last week, in one of the extra – more instructional posts – that I put up every week on Innovative Editing’s blog page, I ended up talking a
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Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 3, 20173 min read
A Novella Marketing Concept
While there are famous and profitable novellas out there, most if not all of them were written decades ago, like that list of examples I pro
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Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 2, 20172 min read
Is Your Novel Really Meant to be a Novella?
Today’s Writing Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is once again about your word count, this time conce
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Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 28, 20173 min read
The Surprisingly Serious Realm of the Little-Known Novella
Today’s Writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is “Novella.”
Since I’ve never written a novella n
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Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 24, 20173 min read
Why You Really Want to Know Your Story’s Word Count Range
We’re now officially onto Writing Rule #8, the last Writing Rule you’ll be getting in February, actually.
But let’s not waste time focusing
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Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 23, 20173 min read
How Long Should Your Novel Be?
Today’s Writing Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, focuses on figuring out how long your novel should b
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Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 22, 20173 min read
The Unforgivable Writing Sin of Unintentional Repetition
It was pointed out to me a number of years ago that writers have a bad habit of using the same words, terms or catchphrases over and over an
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Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 21, 20172 min read
What Makes a Novel?
Today’s Writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is “Novel.”
Think that’s a stupid word to define?
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Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 20, 20174 min read
A Tree of Extraordinary Proportions
Today, let’s continue the semi-successive theme of using actual events to enhance creative writing.
Back on Monday, the sixth, we covered t
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Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 17, 20173 min read
Innovative Editing’s Writing Rule #7
Okay peeps, here’s Innovative Editing’s Writing Rule #7…
Non-fiction writers have to cite everything they put down that isn’t A) their own
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Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 16, 20172 min read
The (Worthwhile) Trials and Tribulations of Non-Fiction Writers
Today’s Writing Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page is specifically geared toward non-fiction writers, wh
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