Simplicity . No matter your genre, keep your writing as straightforward and to-the-point as possible. Write to communicate, not to impress.

Journaling promotes self-awareness, shifts your viewpoint, and broadens your perspective on yourself and others.

A personal essay is about a topical subject discussed from a personal perspective, yours or someone else’s.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I want to talk about this issue of self-editing and the necessity of hiring a professional editor. Yes, I know!...

Trust is a requirement of the editor-author relationship. You must trust that I want your work to be of outstanding quality.

Some writers, even those who have already self-published, have never, even once, had a professional writer or editor read their work.

Our brains have evolved to learn from stories. Theme is not the same as plot. It is more important.

Author Terri Lyon focuses on how she evaluates the effectiveness of her author platform to create an audience and generate sales.

What do get when you merge the mechanics of creative writing with factuality of literary nonfiction? Creative nonfiction, or CNF.

Guest blogger S. D. Howard, The Editing Bard Whenever I tell someone, “I’m a developmental editor and story coach,” I usually get a blank stare in return. I ...

If you self-publish, you won't make many sales without an author platform. If you want a contract with an agent or a publisher, they will first check to see ...

I don’t mean to brag, but my parochial school writing education was exemplary. An emphasis was placed on understanding grammar at a depth unheard of today. I...

Censorship, which takes many forms, means the suppression or prohibition of something. So, let’s be clear, sensitivity readers have no power

This is the second in a series of blog articles about issues concerning mental illness and mental health care. This article was originally posted on the webs...

I am an editor for a living. But I am an advocate for mental health as a passion. This is the first of a series of articles I am writing for Life At The Inte...

I studied journalism and advertising in college. These areas of mass communications, as my major was called, might sound unrelated, even contradictory. One i...

Whether it's called a style book, style guide, manual, or handbook, the purpose of such books is to provide a set of standards for the writing, formatting an...

The sales data in traditional publishing for 2018 pointed to some surprising trends. If you want to know what the industry is looking for in 2019, last year’...

So in my last blog post, I discussed how, often, writers neglect sensory descriptive language in their work. Keeping in mind that we have five senses--sight,...

Most requests for my editing services have been for novels and short stories, and to critique personal essays. The personal essay, which is a subcategory of ...