by Jamie Chavez | Jan 22, 2015 | The Writing Craft
You’ve heard me say, over and over, that reading will make you a better writer. It will. And I’m just talking about reading for pleasure and absorbing things by osmosis that will show up unbidden in your writing later. Now let’s try something else. Let’s try...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 2, 2014 | The Writing Craft
I find it interesting that author Celeste Ng read an article in the New Yorker and took it as a jumping-off point to write the article I’m using as a jumping-off point for today’s post. Here it is: “On Leaving Space for the Reader” from the Glimmer Train Press...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 10, 2014 | The Writing Craft, Your Editor Says …
You’ve seen it in dozens of movies, so many it’s practically a cliché: on a desperate deadline, the writer frantically types the last words of the manuscript—closeup of the words The End—then rrrrips the paper out of the typewriter carriage, and immediately sends a...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 27, 2014 | The Writing Craft
It’s hard to be a beginner. Kids, they’ve got that whole teacher / student dichotomy down, but when you’re a grownup with a novel burning a hole in your pocket (not to mix my metaphors or anything), it’s not always easy to resume the role of student. But, my friends,...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 27, 2014 | The Writing Craft
We all want a little romance in our lives, don’t we? There was a moment in my teens when I realized every single song I loved on the radio was, you know, a love song. In fact, every pop song I knew of—past or present—was, thematically, a version of “She Loves You...
