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On Monday, I got an email from FBI Director Andrew G. McCabe, and he was very concerned about me. Here’s what he had to say: FEDERAL BUREA

This round of writing-related Challenges of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is all about getting further into you

Once upon a time, also known as January 2017, a curly-haired author started reading a traditionally published young adult fantasy novel that

Today’s writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is for “Point of View.” And no, yours isn’t actual

Editor’s Note: Today's post is by guest blogger Kelly F. Barr. She's a go-getter, a wife, a mother of three, a burgeoning writer of

Whether a writer chooses to use dialogue tags all the time or none of the time or some of the time is their own business. Every author has h

It’s probably safe to say that every present-day entrepreneur and small business owner has heard how they need to blog. I know I’ve gotten t

For today’s writing-related Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, let’s get creative with dialogue tags –

While browsing Pinterest to bulk up my Innovative Editing pages the other day, I saw an absolutely awesome pin that went like this: “The di

Today’s writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is “Dialogue Tag.” You know how, last week, I wrot

There are two moms in my family these days: my mother and my younger sister. So naturally, we tailored yesterday for both of them as best as

Before I come right out and state Writing Rule #19, I need to address an issue that comes up way too often when writers are working on chara

I’ve worked for businesses before that were utterly obsessed with the Flesch-Kinkaid reading scale, which measures how many “big words” and

Today’s writing-related Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, centers around storybook dialogue and making

When The Clash sang its famous song, “Should I Stay or Should I Go,” it might as well have been channeling a creative writer looking down at

Today’s writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is “Dialogue,” also known as a major inducer of hea

When people read my books, I want honest opinions. No, really, I do. I know writers say that all the time, and then, if you give them a sp

We’re now up to Writing Rule #18, which reads this way: There’s a certain point where setting descriptions get intensely unnecessary. S

Even though I’ve sworn off reading political news this year due to the very… um… passionate viewpoints everyone seems to have, I still like

Today’s writing-related Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is all about that oft-quoted creative writin