Innovative Editing

Last week’s Professional Writing tip, “7 Tips to Cut Down Your Word Count,” explored exactly as advertised. It’s a great topic to cover for

All the same, I have to say, he makes some very compelling, study-backed arguments for why we need it… in just about every facet of our phys

Despite what so many experts and supposed experts want to tell you. When it comes to effective creative writing – or effective writing in ge

It may seem like we’ve gone off the tidy novel-writing rails these past few months. We talked about first drafts, only to jump to hooks – so

If you’re just interested in reading a dashingly good spy story, then feel free to skip to the first chapter. These next few pages aren’t fo

In “Let’s Talk About ‘Show, Don’t Tell’” – published on Tuesday – I said we’d have a whole entire post about why it isn’t a writing rule. Pl

Last week’s Professional Writing tip, “Is Passive Voice Always Wrong? The Follow-Up,” explored how using – and not using – passive voice can

To start out blog post No. 2 on the “show, don’t tell” writing non-rule (again, more about this later)… let’s quote from blog post No. 1: "W

Since you can’t please everyone… That was the title of The Genuine Writer’s post on August 25: the start of a series on what you can do to m

When writing a novel, everyone wants to give you advice. Even people who have never penned a literary sentence in their life. “Put more of t

Sabrina came around much more quickly than she would have liked. Exhausted and disoriented, she still knew where she was and what had happen

Perhaps I should have led the literary tone series with this one. But it’s too late now, so let’s clear up what needs to be cleared up… Ther

As I edited something for SEO purposes the other day, I found myself staring at a set of sentences. They featured something shocking. To put

So we now know that literary tone is important. Very important. It can make or break a manuscript’s prospects or a book’s sales. If someone

Welcome to Part #3 of the “You Can’t Please Everyone” series, where we’re discussing how you can’t make all your readers happy… but you can

On April 12, 2017, Success.com ran an article called “6 Tips to Rule the Art of Conversation.” It opened with, “The art of conversation is a

Sabrina opened her mouth to scream but found that no sounds came out as Michael steered clear of the accident and kept right on going. Appa

Have you ever heard of the Inklings? As a writer and no doubt reader, it might ring a bell. Or it might not. But back in the 20th century, t

Such a sexy, sassy title, right? Who doesn’t want to know more about phrases, clauses and sentence fragments? How much more fun can we poss

Back in college, there was a class I moved a whole country away in order to avoid. Only for a semester, mind you. And it wasn’t the only fac