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What makes someone an actual expert on a subject? The easy and accurate answer is education. Contrary to what academia wants you to think,

We’re now onto Part 3 of Your Genuine Writer Review series, an analysis of how true you’re being to your writing self. This isn’t an attemp

If you’re writing Christian nonfiction, you have nothing to fear on this site or from this service. You may or may not remember back in the

Last week, we discussed five reasons why you might want to do NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, 2018. Here’s the quick rundown:

Today’s self-help book Writing Rule is going to sound a whole lot like Thursday’s self-help Writing Challenge. For memory’s sake, here’s the

I know Innovative Editing has written before about the best ways to edit and proofread one’s self. But considering the human race’s proclivi

I want to begin this blog entry by saying that nobody ever needs hand-holding while reading a how-to crafting book. Except that, all of a s

Back two Wednesdays ago, in “Your Genuine Writer Review – Part 1,” I mentioned Evan Carmichael’s Your One Word. It’s a business book about c

Life is filled with questions, some of them gut-wrenching, time-consuming and all-around difficult. There’s the standard “Who am I?” and “W

I’m the first person to bash National Novel Writing Month. November is a stupid time of year to waste a stupid amount of time stressing out

Right now, I’m reading Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. And since it could just as easily be titled “How to Underst

Writing while angry can be therapeutic. There’s no doubt about that much. The act of getting one’s unadulterated, uninhibited thoughts down

When writing a how-to book, you don’t have to make it engaging. There’s no writing rule that says you can’t publish it if it isn’t catchy.

Did you know that there’s hope? As in real hope that you’re going to get through whatever stormy skies might be surrounding you right now.

Put on your plaid. Strap on your overalls. And get ready to get the job done, whatever that job may be. Because this week, we’re all about t

When it comes to how to make your creative writing more realistic, there’s a whole ton to be said on the subject. That's why we've h

When you look up “Craft books” on Amazon, it instantly comes up with “over 200,000 results.” When you look up “Hobby books” on Amazon, it i

There are certain words that, when spoken, sound perfectly fine even when we use them several times in a row. Yet when they’re written down,

Back in the ‘90s, there was a pretty big company called Klutz. Technically, this company still exists today, but not to the same fame-and-f

What exactly is a genuine writer? Considering how that’s the name of Innovative Editing’s free writing e-letter, it seems like an important