Paula, on her way to Hogwarts
A dispatch from Paula: “London has been great, as I knew it would be. One big disappointment though: that special side trip I had planned. The darn cart REFUSED to go through!!!”
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Paula S. Jordan–Science Fiction Writer
Hello from Paula S. Jordan
Copyright 2011 Paula S. Jordan It is not my intention to blather pointlessly about myself, but I’ll be putting some words out here about a number of things, including writing, and in case you find an interest in what I will have to say, I think it’s only fair to let you know where I … Continue reading
Plot and Story …
Copyright 2013 by Paula S. Jordan … Is there a difference? Yes, it turns out, and untangling the two can be informative. “Plot,” says science fiction and writer-advice author Ansen Dibell, “is the things characters do, feel, think, or say, that make a difference in what comes afterward.” In other words, the skeleton a story … Continue reading
Our Thanks: more YA SF/F on our library shelves!
Copyright 2013 by Paula S. Jordan April Young, the terrific librarian here in my town of about 1200, also serves many more readers in the western, mountainous part of our county. On behalf of all of them, she sends to all of you her thanks for your suggestions for fleshing out our F and SF … Continue reading
Hard SF Lives On!
Copyright 2013 by Paula S. Jordan Used to be that Hal Clement was the Bureau of Rates and Standards point-to example of the hard science fiction writer. He and others–Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, and Jerry Pournelle among them–did excellent work in depicting the science in their stories and extrapolating its implications for whatever “what if” … Continue reading
Give My Librarian a Hand
Copyright 2013 by Paula S. Jordan Image Credits The terrific librarian here in my tiny town is interested in supporting top-notch SF/F reading, but hasn’t read a lot of it herself. So she has asked me to suggest some authors and titles for her shelves. I am preparing a list of my favorites, including authors … Continue reading
Mindfulness
Copyright 2013 by Paula S. Jordan You know those times: something else in your life keeps elbowing in between you and the mental work at hand. Creative work that needs full freedom of mind, or sharp mental focus, or both at once (!) is disrupted. The word/color/pattern/note … the thought … that you want, is … Continue reading
The Elements of Style
Copyright 2013 by Paula S. Jordan When I referenced this “venerable and wonderful” style guide by Strunk and White in a recent post I did not mention other handbooks that have appeared since William Strunk, Jr. first wrote his “little book” for his Cornell students a hundred years ago. The problem I find with the … Continue reading
Bells of the Kingdom
Copyright 2013 by Paula S. Jordan Good news from Leona Wisoker’s intriguing series Children of the Desert: Book three, Bells of the Kingdom, is newly out and like the earlier books it is excellent. Books one and two, reviewed here show us a divided land: The north, temperate in climate but socially austere. The south, … Continue reading
