by Jamie Chavez | Oct 13, 2014 | Guest Posts, Miscellany, The Writing Craft
In this week’s guest post (’cause I’m still struggling with that pesky computer failure), author Norma Horton covers two topics dear to my heart: writing and exploring foreign countries. If you can call it research and write it off, so much the better! Location,...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 15, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, Books You Might Like
Some years ago, I read a book called The Secrets of Six-Figure Women* by Barbara Stanny. (This is not a post about money; the book itself is about career building.) Stanny, a writer by trade, was struck by the strategies highly successful women commonly tended to...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 31, 2014 | Miscellany, Your Editor Says …
You know, by now, how I feel about getting things right. We’ve talked about … ✱ the importance of getting quotations worded and attributed correctly (“No, You May Not Use Brainyquote.com as Your Source”) ✱ when and how to use footnotes (“Let’s Talk About Notes”)...
by Jamie Chavez | May 15, 2014 | The Writing Craft
I keep running into interesting articles that would be good updates for posts I’ve already written. This happens a lot with material about the craft of writing—God knows I’m not the only blogger writing about writing—so this summer I’m using these updates as a way to...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 28, 2014 | The Writing Craft
These days it seems like a lot of folks live in public—between Facebook and Twitter and Instagram (and there are many others), blogging and other personal websites, texting and emailing, there is a massive amount of information “out there.” But I’m not sure if our...
