by Jamie Chavez | Jun 13, 2013 | The Writing Craft
Lots of folks are dispensing writing tips these days. There’s even a Twitter hashtag for such pronouncements: #writetip. I do it, too, though I try to do it from the position of what I see as an editor. (Someone who’d seen my most-read post found his way to my website...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 11, 2013 | Words & Language
For the first time ever, I’m rerunning a post. But this is an important issue, kids, for Your Editor. Let’s get it right this year, OK? It’s Patrick’s Day. Paddy, Not Patty. Please. The day the Irishman was born, his mother watched the St. Patrick’s Day parade from...
by Jamie Chavez | May 19, 2012 | Words & Language
I’ve been focused on words this week, in one post you’ve seen and others I’ve written but not yet posted. Then a friend of mine led me to this little gem, the obituary of a woman who worked for the English Place-Name Society. That such a thing exists enchants me....
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 15, 2012 | Words & Language
The day the Irishman was born, his mother watched the St. Patrick’s Day parade from her room in the Rotunda Hospital overlooking O’Connell Street and the Parnell monument. I’d love to be in Dublin for this parade, although they say some of the best St. Patrick’s Day...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 4, 2012 | Authors & Other Writers
Well, not exactly. But he was born 200 years ago on February 7, and if you haven’t broken out Great Expectations lately, it’s high time you did. To celebrate. What? You say you don’t care for nineteenth-century literature? Well, as my father used to say, that just...
