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Coming in November: 30 Practical Tactics to Decrease Your Anxiety
November is traditionally NaNoWriMo [https://nanowrimo.org] month, when writers try to write a novel in a month. Since I don’t do fiction (not yet anyway), I’m using November for something different and I'm hoping you'll join me. I’m going to post every
Do You "Take" Photographs or "Make" Photographs?
I use to default to writing “make” photographs, because of the endless rants I used to hear back in my darkroom days (the 90s). Of course, as photographers who took their craft seriously, we painstakingly “made” photographs, we didn’t just “take” them willy-nilly. It’s even in my book
Digitizing My Van Halen Archives
I have boxes full of research from previous books and articles, especially from my days as a music journalist (I still own MusicJournalist.com if anyone is interested). I was putting off digitizing my mountains of articles, documents, letters, and manuscripts until I had a good high-speed scanner. It’s
A Lesser Photographer Now Available in Libraries and Stores
The second edition of A Lesser Photographer is now available somewhere besides Amazon! You can get the physical version through any book store or library now upon request, and (very shortly) through Apple Books and Google. Sorry it took so long to get this book out in wide circulation, but
A Lesson from the 90s in Finalizing Projects
I spotted this uploaded to YouTube and had to share it. It’s from a 1995 documentary called Reel Satriani on the making of Joe Satriani’s seventh, self-titled album. There’s several cool things about this: 1. It’s from the end of the analog age. Everything in it
Library Tourism: Vancouver
On the way to Alaska [https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/alaska], we had to check out Vancouver, especially the library.
