Author Archives: epbeaumont

Writer Tech: A Short Autobiography in Writing Tools

Posted on March 18, 2015 by epbeaumont

Notebook and pen. I started writing in pen long before they officially let us handle that deadliest of weapons, so most of my juvenilia are written in ball-point pen in composition books. This is old school, and it’s also evergreen.

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Muse of Research Writer Interview #1 (short version) up now! Writer Tech news! and more!

Posted on March 17, 2015 by epbeaumont

The first of the Muse of Research interviews, with Lev Mirov (@thelionmachine on Twitter), has been published on the Skiffy and Fanty Show. Go check it out! This is the short version, 1000 words or so. An extended version will … Continue reading →

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From Fan Fiction to Original Fiction: On Second Person (Excerpt)

Posted on March 17, 2015 by epbeaumont

There’s a lot of advice out there saying not to use second person, ever. Like any absolute rule, it’s wrong. Decades after reading it, I still remember the chapter about arrest and detention in the first volume of Solzhenitsyn’s GuLAG … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 15 March 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on March 15, 2015 by epbeaumont

Mattei Light-foot had passed his adulthood rites and been selected for the draft to the Academy at Karis, when he died of a skull fracture in one of the maintenance corridors abutting the ill-fated Dome Seven, only a week before … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 8 March 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)

Posted on March 8, 2015 by epbeaumont

Four centuries ago, for a variety of reasons, I took the literal mask. It is not useless ornament; its communication leads keep me in constant touch with what I must know. Just now the embedded AIs are unscrolling for me … Continue reading →

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Writer Tech: The official series launch!

Posted on March 5, 2015 by epbeaumont

The Writer Tech series began as a series of on-line and off-line conversations with colleagues about things that worked for their writing practice. There are two obvious faces to this: technique (what we do and how we do it) and … Continue reading →

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Goals: The backward glance and the road ahead! With extra awesome!

Posted on March 4, 2015 by epbeaumont

This month I had to adjust a couple of timelines, particularly the ones for beta reading. I had hoped to get a nonfiction project and a novel to beta readers for 1 March, which did not work out. That timeline … Continue reading →

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Love in the Time of Starships: Humor, Horror, and the Mystery of It All (Polenth Blake’s ‘Sunstruck’, Leckie’s ‘Ancillary Sword’)

Posted on March 3, 2015 by epbeaumont

This week’s review was delayed because I had far too much to say. I’ve fallen decisively in love with both of the novels I am reviewing, so the technical challenge was to steer between two extremes:  “inarticulate flail and squee … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 March 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)

Posted on March 1, 2015 by epbeaumont

I am Temn yr Astok, and at this late date it does not matter who my parents were, or who sponsored their marriage. I am the Astok great-clan, pure and simple, except for a few rivalrous upstarts. There are days … Continue reading →

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Writer Interview: Veronica Scott (Romance & Adventure from the Ancient Nile to the Deeps of Space!)

Posted on February 24, 2015 by epbeaumont

Veronica Scott’s work ranges from paranormal romances set in ancient Egypt to action-adventure space operas (Mission to Mahjundar, Wreck of the Nebula Dream, Escape from Zulaire). I first met her on Six Sentence Sunday; we have continued our acquaintance on … Continue reading →

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