Monthly Archives: April 2012

Flash fiction: Bassoon in the corner

Posted on April 6, 2012 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: The bassoon lay … Continue reading →

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Summer NaNo: Novel Cook Pot, installment 1

Posted on April 3, 2012 by epbeaumont

Once you’re a writer, everything is a writing prompt. This summer I’m going to do a NaNo novel. The formal challenge is to do a plot skeleton and play it in counterpoint against the character interview. The responses to the … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 1 April 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on April 1, 2012 by epbeaumont

No, she won’t think about that, because ten years and five children later (two of them dead in their first year) her blank-slate, lily-white ignorance is so far away and so alien that it might as well be someone else, … Continue reading →

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