Innovative Editing

Considering the topic of this episode, perhaps I should write another e-booklet called “How to stand your ground when people are pushy, self

Let’s recap what we've learned about characters so far this week: Tuesday – Characters come in all shapes and sizes. They can be people

Someone I know recently attended a premarital counseling seminar. Considering how she’s about to be married, this friend of mine – we’ll cal

I’ve admitted this before and I’ll admit it again… When it comes to creating character profiles for my novels, I’m an absolute, complete an

Editor’s Note: Do you know how difficult it is to get a hold of a graphic artist who does book cover designs? In my case, it’s been nearly

Despite the blog title above, we’re actually going to cover seven kinds of characters your novel could contain. It’s just that only six of t

As for today, we’re going to address the character of your fiction or nonfiction work. Not “a” character, as in the protagonist or antagonis

We already addressed three specific ways to get past writer’s block: Sucking it up Skipping ahead Sucking it up while eating yummy food....

I’m sure that I’ve written about the “don’t end a sentence on a preposition” rule before. But I’m not sure when that was. So let’s address

Today, we’re starting out with the Writing Challenge right away. Great ways to get past writer’s block are best addressed in a specific orde

Editor’s Note: I first discovered Joy Eilene Givens on the Pennwriters’ Facebook group after she posted the following: Hello, Pennwriters!

Dear Genuine Writer, We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to talk about writer’s block. Do not panic. Next week, we’ll get back t

Back when I was teaching Novel Writing 101 at the Community College of Baltimore County in Maryland, I got asked one specific question often

Subplots are beautiful things – or romantic, or mysterious, or thrilling, or fantastic things – when done right. We’ve already established t

There are definitely more than three differences between speaking and writing. But this is the last post in this particular series nonethele

Did you know that subplots can be more potent or poignant than the plots they sprout from? There's a lot to be said for writing powerful

I know it’s not February 14 anymore. It’s not even February, for that matter. But who cares! It’s still the perfect time for a little roman

C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe follows a schoolgirl who discovers an extraordinary wardrobe. Inside, she finds Narnia, a m

Clearly, Innovative Editing is all about genuine writers. But this begs a really good question: What is a genuine writer? It’s a question a

Yesterday’s post about plot could have been taken a little more harshly than I intended. So let me reiterate that it was meant for lazy or w