Category Archives: NaNoWriMo

NaNoFeed: a backward glance o’er traveled roads, or Quitting While Ahead

Posted on November 29, 2011 by epbeaumont

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 →

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NaNoFeed: Necromancer and Barbarian (six-sentence excerpt: the midsummer party)

Posted on November 28, 2011 by epbeaumont

She dozed in the starlight with his head on her shoulder and his soft hair on her neck and breast; the scintillating sky stretched overhead and the year to come lay open at this hinge of the year, a book … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: The Necromancer and the Barbarian: A Love Story (six sentences)

Posted on November 26, 2011 by epbeaumont

I counted, and this is six sentences (of mine) but I didn’t feel like waiting for the next Six Sentence Sunday (I’m scheduled out through New Year’s) so here it is. The setting is Berlin, c. 2025, following the Great … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: accidental flash fiction (“For once, there was no chaos”)

Posted on November 25, 2011 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 (and title): For … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: taking it as it comes (Thanksgiving Day)

Posted on November 24, 2011 by epbeaumont

A quiet day, which is my usual observance of this holiday. We had dinner with my mentor, a simple meal of baked fish and potatoes and salad, with cherry pie for dessert. No over-eating, no football, and no shopping. We … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: All novelists are liars, but not all liars are novelists

Posted on November 22, 2011 by epbeaumont

I woke up late today, after writing too late last night, and then had my entire day eaten in double-checking a story that proved to be a lie. Which struck me funny, in an odd sidelong way, because I’d been … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: feeling it by doing it (includes excerpt)

Posted on November 21, 2011 by epbeaumont

So I applied butt to chair (after beefing about it all on Twitter and this blog), and produced words enough to get to 60K, at which point the vista of 80K opened up, dizzying and tempting… Writing buddy Devin Harnois … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: the awful noise of the rubber hitting the road

Posted on November 21, 2011 by epbeaumont

Day 21, and it’s not fun anymore. Which is the sad fact of life as a writer: there are times that it’s not fun, and the solutions are various. Sometimes it’s enough to walk away for a bit (not currently … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 20 November (The Necromancer and the Barbarian: A Love Story)

Posted on November 20, 2011 by epbeaumont

Outside the Gothic windows whipped the white veils of a wolf-howling, demon-haunted snowstorm, illuminated in blue flashes by its own lightning. The wax figure on the slab stirred, half-animated; the face moved and then began to melt. The unmistakable stench of … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: The Great Desert of the Interior

Posted on November 19, 2011 by epbeaumont

Most of a novel is middle. That’s where I am right now, and it’s both slow and terrifying. Slow, because it’s the middle, and I’m no longer propelled by the manic joy of the Beginning, where we set up all … Continue reading →

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