Innovative Editing

Let's looks at advice from a few famous fiction writers. Some of it is worthwhile. Some of it might be a little bit off the word-processor m

So you say you’re ready to publish. You’ve written everything you needed to write, and edited everything you needed to edit. You even asked

Before I go any further, let me just say that I mean this next part in moderation. Being exhausted 24-7 isn’t healthy at all. You need to fi

Never forget that the world can be absolutely beautiful. But it can also be absolutely tragic. As creative writers, we have to agree with th

I’ve been reading more nonfiction this year – and not just the research books I bought for my next novel, When Dignity Was a Crime. That...

As we said on Tuesday, there are a whole variety of reasons why someone might want a pen name. For example, you might like the idea of goin

Over the last two Wednesday blog posts – here and here – I’m sure I’ve made my opinions about being on Twitter as a creative writer or autho

In designing this week’s writing Definition about pen names, I had a song run through my head repeatably. Released by Johnny Rivers in 1966

This past Friday was Friday the 13th. And since there was a full moon too, it was a pretty big deal. I don’t know about you, but I wanted to

That title above sounds so effortless, I know. But I really thought about whether to use it or not. “My final draft loves me. My final draf

On August 18, I published a blog post on the Pennwriters’ Facebook page. It came complete with the blog picture and caption shown below...

I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams in this blog before. It’s a fascinating nonfiction

Last Wednesday, we began a conversation about whether it was worthwhile for creative writers to be on Twitter or not. When we did a search

It may seem like we’ve gone off the tidy novel-writing rails these past few months. We talked about first drafts, only to jump to hooks –

A HACC professor interviewed me about Proving America for his class last week. He wanted to give them a better understanding of why writing

In “Let’s Talk About ‘Show, Don’t Tell’” – published on Tuesday – I said we’d have a whole entire post about why it isn’t a writing rule.

In August, Innovative Editing published a post titled, “Why Blogging Won’t Make Your Business Instantly Boom.” The point wasn’t to tell you

To start out blog post No. 2 on the “show, don’t tell” writing non-rule (again, more about this later)… let’s quote from blog post No. 1:

Do a Google search for “should creative writers be on Twitter?” and you’ll get plenty of results. Approximately 266,000,000, to be precise.

When writing a novel, everyone wants to give you advice. Even people who have never penned a literary sentence in their life. “Put more of