Monthly Archives: November 2011

NaNoFeed: Genre Trouble, part 1

Posted on November 30, 2011 by epbeaumont

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’m taking a little time off from my novel … well, at this point, a one-day break. Tomorrow, December 1, I start work again. Last night I came home late and did what I hadn’t … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: a backward glance o’er traveled roads, or Quitting While Ahead

Posted on November 29, 2011 by epbeaumont

It’s November 29, and I’m done. The story is not finished; in fact, the story has developed not only legs but a few other appendages (tentacles, perhaps?) and is wildly propagating in unanticipated directions. I’m not sure if the things … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Necromancer and Barbarian (six-sentence excerpt: the midsummer party)

Posted on November 28, 2011 by epbeaumont

She dozed in the starlight with his head on her shoulder and his soft hair on her neck and breast; the scintillating sky stretched overhead and the year to come lay open at this hinge of the year, a book … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 27 November 2011 (Annie Brown and the Superhero Blues)

Posted on November 27, 2011 by epbeaumont

However, the policies were firm. Bus your own dishes led the list, followed by No superheroics on premises, and Cross World Café bans guns on these premises, with a clarifying note below: “That means conventional firearms, directed-beam weapons, projectile weapons … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: The Necromancer and the Barbarian: A Love Story (six sentences)

Posted on November 26, 2011 by epbeaumont

I counted, and this is six sentences (of mine) but I didn’t feel like waiting for the next Six Sentence Sunday (I’m scheduled out through New Year’s) so here it is. The setting is Berlin, c. 2025, following the Great … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: accidental flash fiction (“For once, there was no chaos”)

Posted on November 25, 2011 by epbeaumont

Author’s note: In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2009, someone put up daily prompts on one of the forums. I did them in the spirit of warm-ups, but some of them turned into stories. Here is one such. Prompt (and title): For … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: taking it as it comes (Thanksgiving Day)

Posted on November 24, 2011 by epbeaumont

A quiet day, which is my usual observance of this holiday. We had dinner with my mentor, a simple meal of baked fish and potatoes and salad, with cherry pie for dessert. No over-eating, no football, and no shopping. We … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: on reading history

Posted on November 23, 2011 by epbeaumont

I have always enjoyed reading history, on the theory that somebody else’s troubles are far more entertaining than my own. Along the way, I picked up a whole lot of rather canny advice. Gibbon, for example. If I were to … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: All novelists are liars, but not all liars are novelists

Posted on November 22, 2011 by epbeaumont

I woke up late today, after writing too late last night, and then had my entire day eaten in double-checking a story that proved to be a lie. Which struck me funny, in an odd sidelong way, because I’d been … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: feeling it by doing it (includes excerpt)

Posted on November 21, 2011 by epbeaumont

So I applied butt to chair (after beefing about it all on Twitter and this blog), and produced words enough to get to 60K, at which point the vista of 80K opened up, dizzying and tempting… Writing buddy Devin Harnois … Continue reading →

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