Innovative Editing

Okay, creative writer. So you’ve taken my editorial advice and went looking through your manuscript for a plot hole. And you found one. Now

When it comes to checking for story plot holes in a manuscript, creative writers have a choice. They can do it the easier way or the hard wa

I recently spoke with three writers who were all in the same I’m-done-editing-my-manuscript phase of the publishing process. Two of them we

Well, creative writers, we’re done with NaNoWriMo and moving onto literary hooks, which non-fiction writers can appreciate too. This week, w

I left you with the most dire of warnings on Tuesday: Creative writers, beware: NaNoWriMo can kill! And I firmly stand by that statement. N

Today, I fully plan on being a tease. But it’s for your own good, creative writer. Your good and the good of your next National Novel Writin

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There’s a lot of writing-circle myths and legends out there about what it’s like to be traditionally published. I addressed and corrected a

Well, we’re on to the topic of what it’s like to be traditionally published for today’s writing-related Challenge of the Week, as posted on 

So far this year, we’ve covered Creative Writing 101, what it takes to get your story down on paper, and how to properly edit your manuscrip

I’ve recently been informed by a close but potentially unreliable source of mine that Dirty Politics 1: The Politician’s Pawn has “too many