Innovative Editing

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

When is it best to write in third person? Some professional writers and business bloggers might say always. In which case, I’d like to poin

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

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

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

There are certain things that happen in the writing world that are just ridiculous. And, unfortunately, there are certain people in the writ

There are so many different groups and movements to cover in the social and cultural issues genre. And there are so many different motivatio

Do you want to write business copy in second-person point of view? Maybe. Then again, maybe you don’t. Here’s how to think of it… Creativ

Writing a social and cultural issues manuscript can be quite fun. As with writing a historical nonfiction manuscript, by “fun,” Innovative

I have a book coaching client who’s in the final round of editing. In fact, for the most part, she doesn’t even need me to edit her chapters

Try looking up the definition of the social and cultural issues genre anywhere else outside of Innovative Editing. If you do, you might find

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

As with any other kind of genre-specific book-composing efforts, writing political commentary has its guidelines and rules. This only makes

Some professional writers hate writing in first person. Some readers, professional or otherwise, hate reading in first person. All those I’s

We began discussing what’s involved in writing a political commentary book on Tuesday. How you can be snarky or serious, factual or downrigh

Editor’s Note: Talking about male writers writing female characters wrong is tricky. For one, Innovative Editing has young readers. And thi

Last week, we covered true crime writing. So it only makes sense that we follow up with a closely related topic: writing political commentar

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

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

“Just write from the heart.” That’s the blog-writing advice I got once upon a time after downloading a free 60-page report. It advertised i