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

“I’m not a real writer, but….” “Well, I can’t really say I’m a writer.” “I wouldn’t call myself a writer…” It’s amazing how many actual w

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

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

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

Think about all the books you have on your shelf at home. Now think about all their front covers. There’s probably a wide variety of picture

Hello, my name is Jeannette DiLouie, and I hate coming up with book titles. Except in my fantasy series, for some reason. Not So Human, To

Back on October 30, I wrote, “The Daring, Dashing, Non-Editorialized Tale of a National Novel Writing Month Rebel.” That blog post detailed

What’s in a book title? Well, words. Obviously. Hopefully descriptive words. A book title is – or at least should be – something that speak

Innovative Editing’s Author of the Month program has some seriously amazing authors lined up for 2018. And they have some pretty awesome rea

If this week’s focus on attitude sounds a lot like last week’s topic – writitude – you’re both right and wrong. Writitude, which is being gr

Some of you are going to find my writing horribly cheesy this holiday week. Consider yourself forewarned. Normally, I hate cheesy holiday g

So you’ve determined that a writing retreat is right for you. You even already signed up for updates about Lia Mack and Jeannette DiLouie’s

For Tuesday’s Definition of “writing retreat,” I spent plenty of paragraphs describing how amazing these getaways can be. Oh, they’re so lov

Today, I’ve asked Tony Ceraso to fill in for me. Founder of Home School Astronomy (www.HomeSchoolAstronomy.com) and author of its array of a

Ready to showcase your skills, creative writer? Or non-fiction writer? Hey, the writing competition spectrum is wide open! Which is why the

Writers (and editors) can do well with a few doses of humility thrown into their lives here and there. It’s a great quality to put on in the

It’s just about National Novel Writing Month go-time! Though for NaNoWriMo 2017, this writer has an editor’s goal instead. I know that Nati

Editor’s Note: I promised a conclusion to Innovative Editing’s last three posts (part 1, part 2 and part 3), and this is it. What can we tak

First of all, yes, I know the W and P in #FirstWorldProblems shouldn’t be capitalized according to proper hashtag rules. But this is what su