Author Archives: epbeaumont

Bricklaying: slow start to a new novel (Ship’s Heart)

Posted on May 6, 2014 by epbeaumont

Some writing is like flying: an exhilarating natural process that nonetheless feels like pure magic. Some writing proceeds at walking pace, like a conversation. And some writing is work: writing down one sentence after another, like laying bricks. It’s not … Continue reading →

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Spring at last!

Posted on May 5, 2014 by epbeaumont

And it’s finally acting like spring here, which means actually sweating when I run for the bus, sniffling from all the tree pollen (very romantic season if you’re a tree), and listening to the birds getting lively outside the window … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 4 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 4, 2014 by epbeaumont

I am still absorbing the shock of seeing Jehen again after fifteen years, as long as Martisset yr Astok the Elder served as a starship captain. He retired to pursue clan-politics, which are the politics of Karis and the Inhabited … Continue reading →

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Writing in Community: the mirror of friends, and the backward glance

Posted on May 3, 2014 by epbeaumont

Two weeks ago, I learned about a writing grant opportunity, with about a week to put together an application. I struggled, but I didn’t make the deadline. The project that most needed outside help was also the project that was … Continue reading →

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Goals: Beginning Again

Posted on May 3, 2014 by epbeaumont

Last night my colleague Becca Patterson and I attended a reading for graduating MFA students at Hamline University in St. Paul. I had the pleasure of hearing a piece that I’d read in an early draft, recognizable still but with … Continue reading →

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May Day post: Citizen of Utopia (from The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on May 1, 2014 by epbeaumont

It’s a dream, of course: the Customs stop where you declare your goods, your self, your intentions, your history, your citizenship, your blood and bone.  What are your intentions, what you seek, where you seek it, whence you come and … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 27 April 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on April 27, 2014 by epbeaumont

Once I would have said I wanted “freedom” — the freedom to range, to explore, to soar as high as I liked — but I wouldn’t have said that, because freedom was the atmosphere in which I swam. Once I … Continue reading →

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Goals: On Getting the Groove Back (Part 1)

Posted on April 22, 2014 by epbeaumont

Now something over three weeks into my full-time work as a self-employed writer, I’ve spent a good part of my time setting up: Reading software manuals (Aeon Timeline and Scrivener, of which more later) and thinking about how to use … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 20 April 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on April 19, 2014 by epbeaumont

I never explained our ways to anyone else until I went away to the Academy (“the Academy at Karis” as it is known in the Inhabited Worlds). Then I met Jehen and her half-sister Yasmin and half-brother Ferenc, which changed … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 13 April 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on April 13, 2014 by epbeaumont

My best friend — what a childish notion. I am very much older and wiser than anyone who would ask such a thing. I am one of a court; I remember those soirees and airship-parties when I was a student … Continue reading →

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