Before You Submit That Article for Editorial Consideration
I recently submitted an article idea to a new publication I just became acquainted with. Because this was over Facebook, I got into a little
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Jeannette DiLouie
Sep 5, 20185 min read
Have You Gotten Your Call?
Jeannette: Hi, Tabitha! We’re going to get right into it. Tell us a bit about your book, Called. What makes it tick? What’s it about?
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 20, 20183 min read
How Not to Get Sued for Libel While Writing a Biography
With yesterday’s Writing Challenge, we covered your ethical responsibility in writing a biography. For today’s Writing Rule though, we go fr
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Jeannette DiLouie
May 16, 20183 min read
5 Facts About School Teachers You Should Probably Keep in Mind
Editor’s Note 1: This article is written by anonymous so that no school teachers suffer more than they already are. But anonymous still know
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Jeannette DiLouie
Apr 19, 20182 min read
A Time to Go Negative
Going all negative isn’t always a bad thing.
This is the realization I came to last week after I realized I was taking a shower with a spid
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Jeannette DiLouie
Apr 16, 20183 min read
Getting to the Publishable Point – Step #6
Beta readers. It’s a term I never heard once during my first 20 years of writing.
Part of that, no doubt, is because I was a pretty little
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Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 6, 20182 min read
Oh, the Horror (Fiction)!
Since I’m not a horror fiction writer, I wanted to practice my editorial preaching before I put this together. That meant doing some pre-wri
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jan 25, 20183 min read
2 (and a 1/2) Reasons to Be Cautious About Hiring a Ghostwriter
This article isn’t entirely against hiring a ghostwriter. That’s why the title says “Be Cautious,” not “Avoid Completely.”
There are some d
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jan 18, 20183 min read
Is This the Year You’re Going to Write a Business Book?
So you want to write a business book about your area of expertise?
That’s great! I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who can use
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jan 11, 20182 min read
Do You Waste Way Too Much Time Writing Business Emails?
Are you one of those people who stresses out over every single business email you compose?
If so, you’re in similarly neurotic company here
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jan 4, 20183 min read
Can Quotation Marks Make Your Readers Doubt You?
On Tuesday, I was just finishing up a final editorial check of January’s Author of the Month post.
A prolific writer herself, this insightf
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jan 4, 20182 min read
3 Ways to Make Your Manuscript Stand Out in Today’s Novel-Writing Swamp
It’s not a pool of novel-writing competition out there. It’s a swamp.
A pool is nice and neat and contained. Oh, it might be an Olympic-siz
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jan 2, 20182 min read
A Focus on Fiction for Novel Manuscript Writers
This year, our focus is going to be on genres, starting out with the fiction side of things. So if you’re working on a novel manuscript, the
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Jeannette DiLouie
Dec 21, 20173 min read
3 Signs You’ve Gone Editorially Overboard and Need to Take a Chill Pill
Last week, we discussed four friendly tips on how to edit your business article or blog post. That piece gave the editorial advice to read o
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Jeannette DiLouie
Dec 14, 20172 min read
4 Friendly Tips on How to Edit Your Amazing Business Article (Or Blog Post)
You just wrote an amazing article. Or blog post. Or some other kind of business copy.
Whatever it is, you rocked it!
How do you know you r
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Jeannette DiLouie
Dec 13, 20172 min read
My Company Christmas Party
What’s your company Christmas party typically like? Let’s see if you can relate to my previous experiences.
- Awkward conversation, with co
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Jeannette DiLouie
Dec 11, 20172 min read
What to Get a (Nice) Manuscript Editor for Christmas
Nice manuscript editors deserve the perfect Christmas presents. Don’t you agree?
Not naughty ones, of course. They deserve horrible Christm
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Jeannette DiLouie
Dec 7, 20173 min read
Ellipses and em-Dashes and Parentheses, Oh My!
Way back when I held the title of mere copyeditor instead of Chief Executive Editor… I worked with a lot of ellipses.
What’s an ellipses, a
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Jeannette DiLouie
Dec 6, 20173 min read
The Daring, Dashing, Non-Editorialized Tale of a National Novel Writing Month Rebel Concluded
Back on October 30, I wrote, “The Daring, Dashing, Non-Editorialized Tale of a National Novel Writing Month Rebel.” That blog post detailed
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Jeannette DiLouie
Dec 4, 20175 min read
Author of the Month: Jeannette DiLouie
Innovative Editing’s Author of the Month program has some seriously amazing authors lined up for 2018. And they have some pretty awesome rea
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