Guest Post Today!

I thought I should point out to my readers that I have a post up today at Janice Hardy's blog, The Other Side of the Story. My post is called "Is world building in stories different from world building in novels?" If that question interests you, head on over!

Another Guest Post Today!

Today I'm visiting over at Janice Hardy's The Other Side of the Story, with a post about revisions. This one was a special request from Janice. I'm talking about how to revise a scene without changing anything that happens in it, just by using the internalizations and mental states of your point of view character to change what the scene means.

The post is called Re-envisioning a Scene Without Rewriting it. I hope you find it interesting!

Guest Blog Post today!

Well, we've arrived at the time for another guest blog post! Today you can get an inside view into Khachee, the language of the Cochee-coco aliens in my new story, "At Cross Purposes." Many thanks to Ann Wilkes at Science Fiction and other ODDysseys for inviting me over.

The article is called Peering behind the curtain with Juliette Wade. I hope you enjoy it!

Multiple POV at The Sharp Angle...

I have my second guest post up today. It's a post on multiple points of view, currently up at The Sharp Angle, a fabulous writing blog hosted by Lydia Sharp. You should definitely go learn about it if you didn't know about it already. Enjoy!

My Debut at Science In My Fiction

Coming up on Friday I will have an article appearing at Science in my Fiction, the blog of Crossed Genres magazine. This is a great blog which talks about how to incorporate real science and scientific principles in writing fiction. Entries are written by a list of authors who have expertise in different scientific areas. The post is called "A Different Value: Nature" and I'll repost it here, but I'll let it appear first at the SIMF blog to tempt you over there. This blog is a great resource, so check it out!

Update for Wednesday

Here are a couple of notes I thought I should share.

First, my guest post is up at my friend Janice Hardy's blog, The Other Side of the Story. Have you ever written a novel that meandered and got too long, maybe even never seemed to finish? I'm dealing with one right now, and talking about it in a post today about "Structural Rewrite of Death." It's about when you have to abandon everything you've written and start over, without actually losing anything of what you've accomplished so far. If you've ever been in this situation, or if you fear you might be one day, check out the post.

Second, I'm still planning to respond to Hayley Lavik's request for a post on folklore. It's taking me a long time because I'm not a folklore expert, and so I'm trying to get in contact with a friend of mine who is, because I'd really like the post to be a humdinger and not just a collection of my random thoughts (much as you folks are used to those by now!).

I've had some delays in my writing endeavors due to cold and flu season, and I'm going to be taking today to try to catch up. I hope to have a more significant new post for you all tomorrow, and in the meantime, you can visit Janice's blog. While you're there, search around a bit if you're rewriting something, or querying, or dealing with other aspects of trying to get published. It's a gold mine of good advice.

I'm a guest blogger!

I'm happy to announce that tomorrow I'll be guest blogging at Janice Hardy's blog, The Other Side of the Story. I heartily recommend the blog, which features lots of great advice on writing, querying, and getting published. My post takes on the topic of in-depth structural rewrites, where you have to depart significantly from a large amount of story that you've actually written.

So check it out, and I hope you enjoy the visit.

I'm a guest blogger!

It's almost Thanksgiving - today I'll be baking pies and making cranberry sauce, and generally filling my day with food instead of blogging. But! Lydia Sharp, over at The Sharp Angle, has been kind enough to invite me for a guest blog post on pronoun use and narrative distance, a.k.a. the intersection between point of view and "show don't tell."

So thanks so much to Lydia, and here's the link. As always, I hope you find my musings useful.