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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

Last week, I happened to listen to “DEBATE! Niko House v. Matt Christiansen on Michael Bennett’s Arrest.” And it was bad. Like really bad. 

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

If you read Monday’s blog, you know I had some significant self-published success over the weekend. Renting vendor space at the Brandywine b

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

This weekend, I rented vendor space at the Brandywine battlefield reenactment in West Chester, PA. Here’s how it was described on...

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

This morning, I posted a book writing-related blog post titled, “Genuine Writers and Authors Challenge Their Biases – Repeatedly.” It’s part

Part of being a genuine writer is acknowledging your bias or biases. That’s why today’s writing-related Challenge (as posted on Innovative E

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

If your paid nine to five job is to write articles or blog posts or summaries, then of course you’re going to be writing articles or blog po

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

Bonnie Mae Evans, author of "The Trees Will Clap," is Innovative Editing's newest Author of the Month. In this interview, she

For today’s Writing Rule, we’re going to delve a little more deeply into something I touched on for yesterday’s writing-related, marketing-f

Marketing can be scary. We already faced that fact in Tuesday’s writing Definition of the Week, and we’re going to tackle it some more in to

Last week, I came across a post on one of the Facebook writer and author groups I belong to. Written by an English teacher who had his own b