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“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

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

How bad/pathetic/scary/depressing/pick-your-negative-adjective is being self-published? Really? Are there even pros to it? Or is it all con

If there’s one definite rule of writing romance fiction, it’s the one stated below. That is to say the one laid out in a few more paragraphs

Sometimes I think they change all the SEO writing rules just to mess with the little people. You know: the bloggers and entrepreneurs and st

Dialogue, I hope we can all agree, is a very important aspect of creative writing, particularly novel-focused creative writing. This is true

When it comes to writing, there are very, very few one-size-fits-all guidelines or rules to be found. This might seem like a shocking admis

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

Do I even want to be traditionally published? If you're writing a manuscript with the intention of publishing, then that’s a very impor

When you’re writing women’s fiction, the protagonist comes out ahead. In some way, shape or form, she ends up in a better place than where s

This is yet another professional writing post on how to make your words work for you. Specifically, we’re dealing with unnecessary prepositi

Women’s fiction manuscripts are supposed to be serious stuff when you get down to its bare-bones purpose. These aren't your mama’s broke

This inspiring daily devotional is a great reminder of how blessed we really are. Every month, Innovative Editing features a creative write

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

Oh, the fun of finding a manuscript editor. Back on February 26, we talked about how to handle feedback from a manuscript editor. So...

Yesterday, we addressed basic setting details – the whats and whys – of post-apocalyptic sci-fi dystopian fiction. Today, we’re going to del

Going all negative isn’t always a bad thing. This is the realization I came to last week after I realized I was taking a shower with a spid

Did you know there was more to dystopian fiction writing than The Hunger Games? Shocking concept? It’s okay. The feeling of total disorient

“I’m not a real writer, but….” “Well, I can’t really say I’m a writer.” “I wouldn’t call myself a writer…” It’s amazing how many actual w