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Why Your Published Manuscript Won't Wow Everyone
I know I’ve been dishing out a lot of tough writing love these last few weeks about your manuscript, saying that your first draft might be b
Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 28, 20174 min read
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You’re on Draft No. What?!? Get That Manuscript Published!
Today’s writing-related Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, concerns the issue of publishaphobia: my mad
Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 27, 20173 min read
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A Humble Editor’s Opinion of What Your Final Draft Should Look Like
We’re up to “final draft” for today’s writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, which means we’re dow
Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 25, 20173 min read
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How Bad Can a First Draft Be? Check Out Mine…
Since I bashed not one but two published authors last week, I think it only right to criticize myself and my own writing today.
One of the
Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 24, 20173 min read
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Don't Be Like This Ridiculous Book, Which I'll Be Nice and Not Name
When it comes to creative writing, particularly novel writing, there are just some errors that should not be published – at least three of w
Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 17, 20174 min read
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The (Sometimes) Painful Art of Editing Creative Copy
Earlier this month, I finished editing the first draft of my Faerietales 5: Flights of Fancy manuscript – creative copy I had a lot of fun w
Jeannette DiLouie
Jun 19, 20173 min read
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June's Author of the Month: Lia Mack
Jeannette: So, Lia, when I first approached you about doing an Author of the Month spot, you were quick to ask for June because this is Nati
Jeannette DiLouie
Jun 5, 201713 min read
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Writing Rule #22: Your Writing Style Isn’t Completely Stable
Creative writers are never completely stable people, so why would we ever think our styles and skills would be static?
Put simply, they’re
Jeannette DiLouie
Jun 2, 20173 min read
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May's Author of the Month: John McCavitt
Back in March, Innovative Editing began its “Author of the Month” program to highlight particularly engaging writers who deserve to stand ou
Jeannette DiLouie
May 1, 20178 min read
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How Much You Care About Your Story Premise Makes a Difference
Here’s Writing Rule #11, and it’s an important one to keep in mind.
Admittedly, all the writing rules are important to keep in mind. If the
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 17, 20173 min read
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Writing a Short Story Might Actually Help You Publish Your Novel
Today’s Writing Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is pretty much a dare: a dare for you to write your
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 9, 20173 min read
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How Bad Are Those Editorial Mistakes You Made?
Mid-last month, I got an editing-focused marketing email from Amazon’s self-publishing arm, CreateSpace.
Now, normally, I don’t care about
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 8, 20174 min read
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What’s Your Reason for Writing?
Last week, in one of the extra – more instructional posts – that I put up every week on Innovative Editing’s blog page, I ended up talking a
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 6, 20173 min read
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Why You Really Want to Know Your Story’s Word Count Range
We’re now officially onto Writing Rule #8, the last Writing Rule you’ll be getting in February, actually.
But let’s not waste time focusing
Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 24, 20173 min read
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What Makes a Novel?
Today’s Writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is “Novel.”
Think that’s a stupid word to define?
Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 21, 20172 min read
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I Refuse to Call These Resolutions
I have goals for 2017. Not New Year’s resolutions. Goals. I feel as if I have to delineate between the two this time around, mainly...
Jeannette DiLouie
Jan 2, 20172 min read
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