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Does Your Story Premise Hold Up?
Today’s Writing Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is all about premise. And I’m just going to warn you
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 16, 20174 min read
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A Creative Writer’s By-the-(Fifth)-Book Confession
On Monday morning, while writing Tuesday’s Definition of the Week, I had a shocking revelation.
I realized that I’ve killed off someone I k
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 15, 20173 min read
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Your Story Literally Doesn’t Exist Without a Premise
Today’s Writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is “Premise.”
And the title above, “Your Story Lit
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 14, 20173 min read
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A Dinosaur Is About to Eat You; Care to Talk About Your Feelings?
On Saturday, my older sister treated me to the Jurassic World exhibit at The Franklin Institute as my birthday present, where I got to meet
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 13, 20173 min read
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Choose Your Fellow Short Story Writers Wisely… Or Else
We’re up to Writing Rule #10, a big milestone for 2017, clearly.
Yet, sarcasm aside, this really can change your writing career. If you han
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 10, 20173 min read
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Writing a Short Story Might Actually Help You Publish Your Novel
Today’s Writing Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is pretty much a dare: a dare for you to write your
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 9, 20173 min read
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How Bad Are Those Editorial Mistakes You Made?
Mid-last month, I got an editing-focused marketing email from Amazon’s self-publishing arm, CreateSpace.
Now, normally, I don’t care about
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 8, 20174 min read
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There’s a Lot Packed Into a Short Story
Today’s Writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is “Short Story.”
At its most basic, a short story
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 7, 20173 min read
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What’s Your Reason for Writing?
Last week, in one of the extra – more instructional posts – that I put up every week on Innovative Editing’s blog page, I ended up talking a
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 6, 20173 min read
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A Novella Marketing Concept
While there are famous and profitable novellas out there, most if not all of them were written decades ago, like that list of examples I pro
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 3, 20173 min read
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Is Your Novel Really Meant to be a Novella?
Today’s Writing Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is once again about your word count, this time conce
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 2, 20172 min read
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March's Author of the Month: Karen Imhof
This book is inspired by my own story as a young girl who didn’t see herself as thin or pretty as other girls. I attempted to fill this long
Jeannette DiLouie
Mar 1, 20178 min read
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The Surprisingly Serious Realm of the Little-Known Novella
Today’s Writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is “Novella.”
Since I’ve never written a novella n
Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 28, 20173 min read
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Author of the Month: Here’s Your Shot at Greatness!
Starting in March – this Wednesday, actually – Innovative Editing is going to feature an Author of the Month spot on its blog.
What or who
Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 27, 20173 min read
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Why You Really Want to Know Your Story’s Word Count Range
We’re now officially onto Writing Rule #8, the last Writing Rule you’ll be getting in February, actually.
But let’s not waste time focusing
Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 24, 20173 min read
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How Long Should Your Novel Be?
Today’s Writing Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, focuses on figuring out how long your novel should b
Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 23, 20173 min read
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The Unforgivable Writing Sin of Unintentional Repetition
It was pointed out to me a number of years ago that writers have a bad habit of using the same words, terms or catchphrases over and over an
Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 22, 20173 min read
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What Makes a Novel?
Today’s Writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, is “Novel.”
Think that’s a stupid word to define?
Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 21, 20172 min read
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A Tree of Extraordinary Proportions
Today, let’s continue the semi-successive theme of using actual events to enhance creative writing.
Back on Monday, the sixth, we covered t
Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 20, 20174 min read
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Innovative Editing’s Writing Rule #7
Okay peeps, here’s Innovative Editing’s Writing Rule #7…
Non-fiction writers have to cite everything they put down that isn’t A) their own
Jeannette DiLouie
Feb 17, 20173 min read
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