Category Archives: NaNoWriMo

NaNoFeed: excerpt from WIP novel The Fourth Prime

Posted on November 15, 2014 by epbeaumont

This one’s moving along slowly, but it is my Official NaNoWriMo Project. It’s a continuation of the story from Inside the Jump (NaNo 2013). So, without further ado…

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NaNoFeed: Midnight, and a new excerpt! (Romance with Rayguns, NaNo 2014 WIP)

Posted on November 10, 2014 by epbeaumont

Another fabulous afternoon at the Minneapolis Central Library write-in, and I scored over 3000 words. That’s still slow (some of my companions cracked 10,000) but I’m really happy with the scenes I wrote. I’ve stepped over the threshold into my … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Northern Tour, after the fact (Wilde Roast Cafe)

Posted on November 9, 2014 by epbeaumont

For the last stop of the night, the Northern Tour came to Wilde Roast Cafe, a venue that holds a well-deserved warm spot in my writerly heart. This is the place where I’ve sipped a mocha and carried on chats … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Live from the Northern Tour! (Lunch is a many-splendored thing)

Posted on November 8, 2014 by epbeaumont

So now we’re at Geek Partnership Society here in Northeast Minneapolis, where we have all unpacked our lunch and are nibbling and/or crunching and/or typing/scribbling away. There are cozy sofas and cold northern light out of a Vermeer still-life blessing … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Live from the Northern Tour! Now with Excerpts!

Posted on November 8, 2014 by epbeaumont

I’m happily pitter-patting along on the Northern Tour, finally getting acceptable word-counts as I sink into the world of my characters and their various dilemmas (oh yes, and caffeine helps). This year, all new works started in November go into … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Romance with Rayguns (untitled WIP – excerpt!)

Posted on November 7, 2014 by epbeaumont

So here’s a hot-off-the-press excerpt. POV is Hernan, 22, coming to the end of his training at the starship Academy. His guardian is having a corrective conversation with him about his career plans. “Your parents’ wishes, in accordance with our … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Traveling Shovel of Death for the win (embracing the spirit of destruction)

Posted on November 7, 2014 by epbeaumont

Back in September 2008, I heard about National Novel Writing Month. I had just turned in my letter of resignation at the toxic ex-day-job (the earlier one, not the one I just left). I started reading the forums, and rapidly … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 June 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on June 1, 2014 by epbeaumont

Early on, my half-brother and half-sister and I formed a triad for dancing. The Second Prime is the number of music, for there is the drum, the dance, and the song, the trinity that flows between the dancers as the … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 25 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 25, 2014 by epbeaumont

A great advantage of being a sentient starship is that you never have to think about what to wear! I am arrayed in all the splendor of my great hull, my sensors, my Artificial Intelligences, my glorious power-plant, and my … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 18 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 18, 2014 by epbeaumont

We live, we love, we inhabit this moment. And it doesn’t matter if you’re in a fleshly body or a cyborg larger than the whales of the Original World; those rhythms go on.  I dance in the solar winds of … Continue reading →

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