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Author Archives: epbeaumont
Writing Goals check-in
It’s a snowy Monday night, and I’m still recovering from National Novel Writing Month. I wrote 85K words of novel draft alongside an estimated 10-15K words of blog posts (posting every day adds up fast). So we’re looking at a … Continue reading
Six Sentence Sunday, 4 December 2011 (Annie Brown and the Superhero Blues)
She smiled back, a little tentatively, and said, “Hi.” She ordered her usual: bittersweet mocha with skim milk. Iced, no whipped cream. She winced in anticipation of the expectable joke about her complexion. Northtown was very white, except for the … Continue reading
Revolutionary endgame, or some thoughts about Happy Ending
I’ve been thinking about the whole question of the Happily Ever Ending as I’ve been thinking out the ending of my NaNo novels, The Shape-shifter’s Tale (2010) and The Reincarnations of Miss Anne (2009, unfinished). The 2010 NaNo was the first … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed, the Sequel: What makes it all worth while
Exhausted and speedy all at once, after two days away from the novel. As my buddy Devin Harnois puts it, “I want to take a nap and conquer the world.” But tonight I went to our region’s TGIO (Thank God/Goodness … Continue reading
NaNoFeed: a backward glance o’er traveled roads, or Quitting While Ahead
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
Six Sentence Sunday, 27 November 2011 (Annie Brown and the Superhero Blues)
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
NaNoFeed: accidental flash fiction (“For once, there was no chaos”)
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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