by Jamie Chavez | Mar 6, 2017 | Your Editor Says …
A couple-three years ago, I had lunch with an author friend who was in town for a conference. She is a speaker who often counsels beginning writers about craft and process, and that day we were discussing the finer points of teaching/editing grownups. “It’s all about...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 13, 2016 | Your Editor Says …
Yes, a while back, I wrote an article with some basics about track changes. We’ve also talked about why you need to use MS Word when you’re working with an editor, not Apple Pages. (Calm down, Mac users; I’ll establish my bona fides. To wit: I bought my first Mac in...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 6, 2015 | Your Editor Says …
Not long ago I got a frantic email from a writer: I don’t see any corrections! I knew I’d made plenty of corrections. I sent the manuscript again. Have a look at this one, I said. Who knows what happens to the bits and bytes on their way from my computer to yours? I...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 8, 2015 | Your Editor Says …
You’ve been waiting for me to bust a rant, haven’t you? Good! Because I’ve had it with Pages. I learned to use word-processing software in 1990 at the company I then worked for. It was WordStar, and I was working on a PC, back in the days before Windows when you had...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 14, 2013 | Your Editor Says …
We’ve just been talking about using track changes to work with your editor. There’s another tool you can use to communicate with your editor—the margin note—and as simple and obvious as it seems to me, I often spend a lot of time explaining how to respond to margin...
