by Jamie Chavez | Sep 5, 2013 | Your Editor Says …
Awhile back I found myself wondering how I could best tell the author of a manuscript I was working on that I was his editor, not his editorial assistant. There’s a difference—and, as an aside, I’m not talking about the position a publishing house calls “editorial...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 22, 2013 | Your Editor Says …
When I was a kid, some of my best friends were teachers. What grade was I in when my teacher read aloud to us every day after lunch? The Story of Doctor Doolittle (by Hugh Lofting, published 1920) influenced me in many more ways than just giving me a delight for...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 28, 2013 | The Writing Craft, Your Editor Says …
I have spent a good bit of my life trying to learn how to write well. Writing well, I think, is one part practice (those 10,000 hours), one part reading other writers (good ones), and one part the study of fundamentals (grammar and craft). There may be other...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 13, 2012 | Your Editor Says …
I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking all the time. Stream of consciousness and all that. Your characters have thoughts too—separate from the narrative. And when a character has a thought important enough to write about, important enough to draw attention to, let’s...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 10, 2012 | Your Editor Says …
Some months ago I ran an article about why you shouldn’t double space after a period. The comments on the blog itself were from fellow editors and thus supportive, but the amount of angry (angry!) push-back that showed up on Facebook (my account and those of my...
