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Well, my authors and authors and authors-in-the-making… We’ve covered the writing process. We’ve covered the editing process. And we’ve n

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

Even believing that there are decent, honest vanity publishers out there – which I’m sure there are. Somewhere – these professional publishi

Remember last week’s professional writing tip about cutting down on your word count? Well, this week’s is about upping it with some...

I know I said a lot of bad things about vanity publishers in yesterday’s Definition of the Week. And I’m going to continue saying bad things

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

For today’s writing Definition of the Week (as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page), we’re going to skim the surface of what a vani

If you’ve got a book manuscript, whether it’s a creative writing piece or something in the non-fiction category, you want to have an editor.

As a self-published author, as a professional and as a person, being a salesperson is not my natural forte. And it’s not just because I’m an

Back in high school, I heard a writing teacher once say that every written sentence needed to be reduced to its simplest state. In other wor

This writing-related Challenge of the Week is a giant deal for any authors who’ve decided to self-publish their books. As such, forget any b

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

Delving further into our publishing possibilities for today’s writing Definition of the Week (as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook pag

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

In order to address Innovative Editing’s literary agent/query letter/traditional publishing Part 2 Writing Rule of the week, we need to firs

When was the last time you read a full article, whether it was online or in print; something in your CNN or Fox News feed, a blog post or so

We’re going to cheat a little with today’s writing-related Challenge of the Week, since query letters aren’t actually literary-agent...

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

We’re still on the topic of the traditional publishing process for today’s writing Definition of the Week (as posted on Innovative Editing’s

Why should writers show up to open mics? Well, some people are talkers. Some people are writers. Some people are doers. And some are all th