by Jamie Chavez | May 15, 2017 | Your Editor Says …
Yes, I am trying to hold back a flood. And I’m a little annoyed with the AP Stylebook. As the Washington Post says: The barbarians have done it, finally infiltrated a remaining bastion of order in a linguistic wasteland. They had already taken the Oxford English...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 26, 2016 | Your Editor Says …
You may have noticed in some of my previous entries I have used the noun best sellers (“my mother’s collection of best sellers from the ’40s and ’50s”). Not bestsellers. Nor best-sellers. Best seller, a noun, is an open compound, friends, and frankly I’m tired of...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 27, 2015 | Your Editor Says …
I really love the left-brain/right-brain duality of editing. It’s both prescriptivist and descriptivist. It’s a puzzle and yet has the same elements. Every project’s different … and every project’s the same—in that it has a need for a style guide. You’ve heard me talk...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 26, 2015 | The Writing Craft
In the same way that it’s hard to define what makes a great book, or what makes great writing, it is nearly impossible to get a definition of narrative voice in writing. Impossible missions, however, have never frightened Your Editor. Stand back. What you hear most...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 8, 2014 | Guest Posts, Your Editor Says …
Every so often I read something one of my friends has written and think, Man, I wish I’d written that! Which is exactly how I felt when I read this one from writer/editor Beth Bates. 🙂 And with the Read Play Edit Blog Recovery Plan still in effect, I had the perfect...