by Jamie Chavez | Nov 16, 2015 | Creativity
The photo you see below stopped me in my tracks when I saw it on Facebook about a year ago. It spoke to me. Some of you may know these friends of mine—twins, their mother, and their aunt—but if you don’t, and if you’re willing to let your imagination roam, you...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 17, 2015 | The Writing Craft
I wrote some fan fiction once. When I was twelve. It was a story about a young girl—she was pretty and smart and clever—who meets the Beatles. (Don’t laugh, now. They were hot—actually, cool—back in the day.) You can imagine who my protagonist was modeled after. 🙂 Of...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 6, 2015 | The Writing Craft
Recently one of my author friends said something on Facebook that I thought we should all think about: Cleaned out an entire bookcase and donated never-going-to-read-again books. Discovered a disturbing array of bookmarks … and a renewed writing purpose: Aim to create...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 27, 2015 | The Writing Craft
I think about these elements all the time, of course—milieu, idea, character, event—but this article from science fiction author Orson Scott Card made me think of them differently. He says one of the four determines the structure of the novel. Thus a milieu story is...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 22, 2015 | The Arts & Media, The Writing Craft
I read recently that John Harrington, in his book Film And/Is Art, estimated that a third of all movies ever made have been adapted from novels; another writer claims that 51 percent of the top 2,000 films of the last 20 years were adaptations (from novels, short...
