Innovative Editing

“What’s a chick-lit writing challenge, and who needs it anyway,” might sum up your mentality about the title above and the genre in...

Dialogue, I hope we can all agree, is a very important aspect of creative writing, particularly novel-focused creative writing. This is true

Women’s fiction manuscripts are supposed to be serious stuff when you get down to its bare-bones purpose. These aren't your mama’s broke

Did you know there was more to dystopian fiction writing than The Hunger Games? Shocking concept? It’s okay. The feeling of total disorient

Constructing a compelling alternative history fiction manuscript requires significant evaluation. Such writers require a critical eye of no

We already discussed what makes the steampunk fiction genre tick. And that’s steam power. Hence the name. But let’s not go too fast too soo

Despite Tuesday’s Definition, I’m still convinced that paranormal fiction should be strictly about ghosts and ghoulies. Not vampires. Not we

Have you ever read up on the mythology of mermaids? Or faeries? Not fairies. Faeries. Or dragons? As a contemporary fantasy fiction write

Because of high fantasy fiction’s nature – epic fantasy fiction or otherwise – creating character name confusion is a risk. High fantasy fi

For such a free-spirit genre, it might seem silly to apply a fantasy fiction writing challenge at all. Why bother? What hurdles could possi

I just finished up a book about cryptids, a word I never knew existed before. In this particular non-fiction exploration’s case, the crypt

As promised on Tuesday, today’s Writing Challenge takes us further into the freeing farce of fan fiction. Why is it freeing? Because you’re

I once tried to listen to one of Stephen King’s horror fiction novels on audiobook. But I didn’t make it past the 10-minute mark. I might n

As we discussed on Tuesday, thriller fiction is meant to be thrilling. That’s the common, obvious and essential ingredient for a novel to be

Let’s say your mystery fiction manuscript has one main character: amateur detective Thomas Green. But that doesn’t mean it only has one crim

As we’ll discuss further on Friday, historical fiction settings are intensely important. They not only frame the story; they’re meant to be

What makes literary fiction literary fiction? That’s kind of hard to define considering how it can and does borrow from every other genre.

This week, we’re discussing back cover blurbs and which one works best for your book. Which can be quite the process. That’s why we ended T

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