Sylvia Patience, Author

After my recent sojourn into the realms of physics, down to the smallest energy/particle units and out to infinity and parallel universes, I’ve just been grounded again by reading Becoming Animal by David Abram. It’s a beautiful vision of this Earth in (not on) which we live, and of the sentience we share with all Read more

My interest in learning more about the idea of parallel universes led me to In Search of the Multiverse; Parallel Worlds, Hidden Dimensions, and the Ultimate Quest for the Frontiers of Reality by John Gribbin, a physicist and popular science writer. He discusses all of the above. Apparently the Multiverse is a widespread idea among Read more

Thanks to my friend and critique partner, Claudia Finseth, I was recently reminded of the excellent book Self Editing for Fiction Writers by Browne and King. Claudia pointed out the advice on dialogue and it made me go back and look at the dialogue in the books I’ve written. Browne and King recommend that almost Read more

Last weekend I had the opportunity to join a tour, sponsored by the Santa Cruz Natural History Museum, of some of the sand hill habitat in Scotts Valley. This was part of the museums Connect with Nature series and there are still three more weeks. Before volunteering at the museum I didn’t know much about Read more

I attended this week-long workshop last year and it was amazing in so many ways. Two great instructors. Seven other participants who became friends and ongoing critique partners. Critique and feedback on the whole novel. Time to write and revise every day, and time for group learning and sharing. I wish I could go back Read more

In my book, Wandering Time, Zoe believes that travel to alternate realities or parallel universes happens by magic, her mother, with her psychology background, thinks it’s a shared delusion because Granny Rae has Alzheimer’s disease. But Granny Rae looks for an explanation in modern physics theories about parallel universes. This is a concept which has Read more