Innovative Editing

Just as with “big kid” books, there are different genres or categories in the children’s publishing world. Also like the children’s publish

Editor’s Note: Since we’re discussing Christian fiction this week, I asked another Christian writer, reader and editorially-minded manuscrip

Sooo… Christian fiction writing. What can we say about it? Since this week’s writing Definition, Challenge and Rule are going to be fille

We’re onto the wonderful and wacky world of writing chick-lit! If you trend toward composing manuscripts that are fun and fluffy and embrac

Poor, poor romance writing. It gets such an entirely bad rap, much more so than women’s fiction. Destined to be the brunt of jokes, romance

Probably not surprisingly, women’s fiction writing is one of the newer trends out there in the literary world. While I don’t have an exact d

We’re off of alternative history fiction and onto another deeply speculative genre: dystopian fiction. You know: stories like The Hunger Gam

The label “alternative history” might sound something like “fake news” at first glance. And, in the hands of the wrong writer, I suppose it

You might have to be dead (or undead) to truly understand the definition of paranormal fiction. Perhaps that’s the reason why it’s such a co

We’re up to one of my (admittedly many) favorite subgenres of all times: contemporary fantasy fiction. With it, we’re also discussing its cl

Try giving a definition for high fantasy fiction, and you’ll get a lot of industry agreement. Try giving a definition for epic fantasy ficti

Oh, fantasy fiction writing, what can we say about you? A whole lot, actually. That’s why the next three weeks will be filled with Definiti

Science-fiction is a hardcore genre with hardcore fans and a hardcore history of making intense societal changes. Being the child of a Trek

Fan fiction. It’s quite the controversy to bring up in conversation with creative writers. And that’s because just about every creative writ

Since I’m not a horror fiction writer, I wanted to practice my editorial preaching before I put this together. That meant doing some pre-wri

That’s thriller fiction’s claim, anyway: the promise of an edge-of-your-seat ride on the wild side. And when it’s well-done, that’s precisel

If you want to be a mystery fiction writer, you’re in some luck. There’s nothing too shadowy about this genre. Not about its definition, any

Since we’re starting our definitions out with the more “serious” fictional genres, historical fiction is next on the list. Historical ficti

Starting out our lengthy list of fiction genres is literary fiction. If you go into Barnes & Noble or your local bookstore, you’re prob

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