by Jamie Chavez | Jul 6, 2015 | The Writing Craft
Recently one of my author friends said something on Facebook that I thought we should all think about: Cleaned out an entire bookcase and donated never-going-to-read-again books. Discovered a disturbing array of bookmarks … and a renewed writing purpose: Aim to create...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 27, 2015 | The Writing Craft
I think about these elements all the time, of course—milieu, idea, character, event—but this article from science fiction author Orson Scott Card made me think of them differently. He says one of the four determines the structure of the novel. Thus a milieu story is...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 6, 2015 | The Writing Craft
Remember the point of these Saturday posts is to give you an article I can’t improve, to which I don’t have a single intelligent thing to add. This Chuck Wendig guy, he has a lot of good material, a lot of interesting things to say. (Note: Sometimes he uses strong...
by Jamie Chavez | May 23, 2015 | The Writing Craft
I read this short article—“A reader’s advice to writers”—a while back and thought it was an interesting twist: a reader advises writers of fiction on what makes a good book. Here one I like a lot: 2. Make your main character do something. For the reasons stated above,...
by Jamie Chavez | May 7, 2015 | The Writing Craft
Nobody taught me specific methods for editing. Some tactics are obvious (you should be kind, for example, which is a rule for life as well as for editing) and others are strategies I came up with on my own right here in the swanky second-floor office in the pink house...
