Innovative Editing

Here’s an interesting creative writing thought to think about… What do you do with your main character’s parents in middle grade writing? T

Editor’s Note: There are so many misconceptions about making it big in Hollywood. Admittedly, most creative writers who choose to write abou

If you do a search for “middle grade fiction” writing online, you’re bound to come up with a Goodreads list or two on the first few pages.

When was the last time you contemplated writing a proper villain? For me, it was just this past weekend. It was at the HEAV (Home Educators

Proper picture book story writing isn’t as easy as it may seem to some. These narratives may have less pages and far fewer words to work wi

Writing picture book stories requires some special insights into 3-8 year-olds' minds. Here’s an example… The other week, I got to take

Just the very mention of the picture book “genre” should make readers everywhere smile. Whether it makes them think about books they used to

You’ve heard the saying, “keeping it real,” I’m sure. Well, this post is all about writing it real… taking factual information and putting

If you’ve got a board book idea for tiny tots, more power to you! Just know that traditional publishing presses probably don’t agree with In

When it comes to board book ideas, they’re both incredibly simplistic and really rather hard. Let’s start with the simplistic… On Tuesday,

Editor’s Note: We creative writers do some fairly dreadful things to our protagonists throughout the course of our writing careers. Oh, we s

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

At the risk of being utterly cheesy, let's tackle the topic of what it takes to be a professional writer. At least we're going to ta

It would probably be pretentious to say that it’s Christian fiction writers’ job to make God look good. God doesn’t need our assistance in

I got a little brutal about writing Christian fiction on Tuesday. Now it’s time to get really brutal. Most traditionally published Christia

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

If there’s one chick-lit Writing Rule you can count on, it’s going to be that the main character doesn’t have her life in order at story’s b

“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...

Editor’s Note 1: This article is written by anonymous so that no school teachers suffer more than they already are. But anonymous still know