How to Format Your Brand-New Self-Published Book Beautifully
I have a book coaching client who’s in the final round of editing. In fact, for the most part, she doesn’t even need me to edit her chapters
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 12, 20183 min read
Never Take Editing for Granted. Ever.
When writing a professional blog post, I have a system before I publish. My process is quite simply as follows:
Write/Edit
Edit
Paste every
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Jeannette DiLouie
Nov 9, 20172 min read
Test Your “Writing Competition Eligibility” With This Quick Questionnaire!
Ready to showcase your skills, creative writer? Or non-fiction writer?
Hey, the writing competition spectrum is wide open! Which is why the
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 30, 20173 min read
The Dashing Tale of a National Novel Writing Month Rebel!
It’s just about National Novel Writing Month go-time! Though for NaNoWriMo 2017, this writer has an editor’s goal instead.
I know that Nati
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 12, 20173 min read
Hiring? Here’s a Great Way to Narrow Down Your Candidate List – Fast!
One of Innovative Editing’s three focuses is on businesses that don’t have time to do their own writing. As such, I spend about an hour twic
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 11, 20173 min read
Done Editing Your Manuscript but Nervous About the Publishing Part?
I recently spoke with three writers who were all in the same I’m-done-editing-my-manuscript phase of the publishing process.
Two of them we
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 29, 20172 min read
Authors, When It Comes to Marketing, You Have to Suck It Up
Well, my authors and authors and authors-in-the-making…
We’ve covered the writing process.
We’ve covered the editing process.
And we’ve n
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 17, 20173 min read
Are Self-Published Books Badly Edited and Poorly Put Together? Prove that Wrong!
This writing-related Challenge of the Week is a giant deal for any authors who’ve decided to self-publish their books. As such, forget any b
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 15, 20173 min read
Don’t Let Your Self-Published Freedom Go to Your Authorial Head
Delving further into our publishing possibilities for today’s writing Definition of the Week (as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook pag
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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 9, 20174 min read
How Much Time We Really Waste Per Day Isn’t Pretty
If you want to know how much time you waste during the day – time you could spend working on that creative writing or autobiographical or no
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 18, 20173 min read
Think About Your Second Draft This Way, Not That Way
Today’s writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, applies to “Second Draft.” Since that two-word conc
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 14, 20173 min read
Don’t Be Horrified if Your First Draft Is a (Really) Rough Draft
Well, we’re up to Writing Rule #28 and discussing first drafts, which admittedly can be pretty bad.
Here’s a common enough story about the
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 12, 20174 min read
8 Ways to Make Your Manuscript Look Professional – Part 2
On Monday, we covered Part 1 of an eight-item editorial tricks list, which detailed two specific tips to try out if you’re feeling a little
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 10, 20174 min read
8 Ways to Make Your Manuscript Look Professional – Part 1
There are two foundational steps to looking like a pro with your written copy, whether we’re talking about a professional article, a busines
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jul 4, 20173 min read
Let’s End This
For today’s writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, we’ve done it! Or just about anyway, since all
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jun 29, 20173 min read
Should Your Story Have a Sequel?
Today’s writing-related Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, focuses on the future – your story’s future,
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jun 19, 20173 min read
The (Sometimes) Painful Art of Editing Creative Copy
Earlier this month, I finished editing the first draft of my Faerietales 5: Flights of Fancy manuscript – creative copy I had a lot of fun w
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Jeannette DiLouie
Jun 2, 20173 min read
Writing Rule #22: Your Writing Style Isn’t Completely Stable
Creative writers are never completely stable people, so why would we ever think our styles and skills would be static?
Put simply, they’re
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Jeannette DiLouie
Apr 26, 20173 min read
What’s So Innovative About Editing?
Let’s start this one out with definitions for the words “innovative” and “editing.”
According to the all-knowing Dictionary.com, innovative
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Jeannette DiLouie
Apr 13, 20173 min read
Professional Writing Tip: Why White’s Important Too
Did I hook you with that controversial headline?
Good! We’ve got a very important topic to discuss, and while we are going to get into dive
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