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Author Archives: epbeaumont
The ragged tag-end first draft blues
They warned us, of course. Finish the novel in November. Use that last crazy burst of energy to get it all down, and fix it up later. I’m still finishing it. There is one chapter that needs rewriting into an … Continue reading
Six Sentence Sunday, 18 December 2011 (Annie Brown and the Superhero Blues)
They were apprentice wizards, the three of them, with a penchant for clever hackery. Bertie had sent the three of them to Annie, saying, “She’s an engineer. She could tell you about flying.” She had meant to tell them that … Continue reading
The mysteries of beta reading, or mapping what isn’t there
I am currently beta-reading a number of first-draft novel manuscripts. Over the last three years of National Novel Writing Month, I have been privileged to acquire a small group of first-draft beta-reading friends. Those relationships have grown slowly, out of … Continue reading
Six Sentence Sunday, 11 December 2011 (Annie Brown and the Superhero Blues)
Then Sunny’s cell phone buzzed, and the look on her face told all: that was Courtney. Courtney having issues, Courtney being needy, Courtney needing bodyguarding as she went clubbing: Courtney with the black hair and pale pale skin and six-inch … Continue reading
Apprenticing with the dead: smashing the four-dimensional fourth wall (Alexander Herzen)
My fiction is full of time-slips and voices from the past surfacing in the present, and foldings-over that make the chain of causality obscure at best. You know what they say: write what you know. The voices in the next … Continue reading
In between times… resting
It felt odd not to write today. I read, and I rested, and that was it. The story is cooking, and I am not sure where it’s going. It’s cold outside and I spent the day dozing on the couch … Continue reading
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Coming back to the beginning, or lessons from the cook pot
Sometimes you don’t know what you were setting out to do until you’ve done it. Last year, I wrote my first completed story arc for National Novel Writing Month. For the first time, I sent a work out to beta … Continue reading
E. P. Beaumont 