by Jeanette Taylor | Dec 6, 2018 | Writing Tips
When Should the Nonfiction Author Interrupt a Story to Offer Insights? Readers of nonfiction want glimmers of author interpretation, either within an underlying narrator’s ‘voice’, or overtly in first-person—but doing so in my current piece, a history of a...
by Jeanette Taylor | Sep 30, 2018 | Writing Tips
Tips for Organizing Research Material for a Nonfiction Writing Project Nonfiction projects, whether it’s a memoir, an essay about a natural disaster, or a community history, are backed by research. For memoir there are clippings, journals and contemporary accounts....
by Jeanette Taylor | Jul 29, 2018 | Writing Tips
When is a draft manuscript ready for feedback? Writers ache to share their literary darlings with others, but therein lurks danger. To the writer, those first few chapters—or even a first full draft—are loaded with the sparkle of a rough-cut gem. But that’s not how an...
by Jeanette Taylor | Apr 16, 2018 | BC History Tales
Leaving Behind the Known World: The James and Isabella Robb Family of Comox, BC This is the first in a series of mini-portraits of 20th century immigrants to British Columbia, exploring what compelled them to leave their homes–and what they found in their new...
by Jeanette Taylor | Mar 7, 2018 | Writing Tips
Is Consent Needed from Others for Personal Writing ? Many personal writing projects get shelved at the concept stage because of fears about how others portrayed might respond. What’s lost is not just a writer’s search for personal meaning, but insights for others...
