The Most Revolting Candy Ever and What You Need to Know About Travel Writing
As we’ve already discussed this week, being a travel writer writing a travel nonfiction book is awesome! Just as long as you don’t die in th
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jun 22, 20183 min read
The Young Adult Fiction Writing Games
What’s your young adult fiction writing poison?
As a young adult fiction writer, you might want to wait to answer that before asking to oth
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jan 19, 20183 min read
This Is One of the Worst Historical Fiction Writing Errors You Can Make
We’re addressing a major writing pet peeve of mine today: historical fiction that isn’t historical.
Don’t get me wrong. You can classify yo
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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, 20173 min read
The First Two Steps to Picking Your Book's Perfect Front Cover
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Nov 29, 20172 min read
Your Words. Your Worlds. Your Responsibility.
Regardless of the subject matter, the title of author should sound noteworthy – even imposing – when it carries as much responsibility as it
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Jeannette DiLouie
Nov 28, 20173 min read
What Does Your Writing Attitude Say About You?
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Nov 16, 20173 min read
What Is a Writing Retreat Going to Cost Me?
For Tuesday’s Definition of “writing retreat,” I spent plenty of paragraphs describing how amazing these getaways can be. Oh, they’re so lov
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Jeannette DiLouie
Nov 3, 20173 min read
So You’re Going to Attend a Writers’ Conference, Huh?
Yesterday, I wrote that it’s so important to have confidence if you’re going to attend a writers’ conference. This is particularly true “if
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 30, 20173 min read
The Dashing Tale of a National Novel Writing Month Rebel!
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 13, 20173 min read
Plot Holes Are Worth Fixing, No Matter the Cost
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 12, 20173 min read
Everywhere a Plot Hole? Ol’ Creative Writer Had a Manuscript…
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 11, 20173 min read
Done Editing Your Manuscript but Nervous About the Publishing Part?
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 22, 20173 min read
What You Need to Know About Vanity Publishers – Part 1
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 18, 20173 min read
Self-Published Introverts, You Need to Pretend to Like People
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 17, 20173 min read
Are Self-Published Books Badly Edited and Poorly Put Together? Prove that Wrong!
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 15, 20173 min read
Don’t Let Your Self-Published Freedom Go to Your Authorial Head
Delving further into our publishing possibilities for today’s writing Definition of the Week (as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook pag
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 10, 20174 min read
How to Write a (Possibly) Successful Query Letter
We’re going to cheat a little with today’s writing-related Challenge of the Week, since query letters aren’t actually literary-agent...
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 3, 20173 min read
A Few Extras About Getting Traditionally Published
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
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 1, 20173 min read
Traditionally Published: Achieving Every Writer’s "Shangri-La”
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
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