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 | 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...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 18, 2015 | Books You Might Like
Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor in Jincy Willett’s 2013 novel Amy Falls Down. She’s traveling by train across the country … That evening Amy decided to take supper in the dining car. The maître d’, a magenta-coiffed young woman whose job it...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 19, 2015 | The Writing Craft
We’ve talked a lot about the ways story ideas pop up. Interpretation of artwork, old family stories, historical or current events … Stephenie Meyer’s claim that it all came to her in a dream is the least interesting method to me, mostly because I don’t really believe...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 13, 2014 | The Book Biz, Your Editor Says …
There are days when I think I should send you all on over to the Books & Such blog and just close up shop. Because, honestly, they’ve got great content and they’re all smarter than me. But … I kinda dig my blog. 🙂 So I’ll just keep bringing these posts to your...
