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Six Sentence Sunday, 28 August 2011 (The Lost Pissarro)

Posted on August 28, 2011 by epbeaumont

She shook her head, to clear the dream: she’d slipped, momentarily, into the person of a raven soaring over a line of knights on horseback. Clearly not her real self. The unicorn foal not twenty paces away shook its head … Continue reading →

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The ten-percent solution: a tale of literary liposuction

Posted on August 27, 2011 by epbeaumont

I’ve heard this advice from multiple sources: Write, and then cut 10%. I’m here to say it works. No, I’m here to say how it works. Between 5 August and 19 August, I banged out the draft of my superhero … Continue reading →

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Lessons from National Novel Writing Month: a charter for your novel

Posted on August 25, 2011 by epbeaumont

One of the really valuable lessons of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is thinking out what you love and what you hate in a novel. In Chris Baty’s classic manual for the event, No Plot? No Problem!, this is called … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 21 August 2011 (The Lost Pissarro)

Posted on August 21, 2011 by epbeaumont

The world had shifted around them, and Angie Stavros took a sort of grim satisfaction in it, that now most of the world felt as dislocated as she did. Welcome to my world, she thought as she caught a glimpse … Continue reading →

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Goals check-in (September 1 goal): we have a draft!

Posted on August 20, 2011 by epbeaumont

Well, I’ve met part of my goal for September 1 (see last post): the superhero romance is in raw draft, at 33,000 words. I took off some vacation days from Ye Olde Day Jobbe to do that (what better use … Continue reading →

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Writing goals for the next six months

Posted on August 16, 2011 by epbeaumont

It’s better to start small than to promise big things and fall short. I’ve been modest in updating this blog, doing Six Sentence Sunday and the occasional during-the-week update. Nonetheless, I know myself for a “real writer” now (you know, … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 14 August 2011 (The Shape-shifter’s Tale)

Posted on August 14, 2011 by epbeaumont

I walk the colonnade of the vast stadium, its staircases rising past the locked gates. Along the top runs a frieze in which the counties are carved, all ninety-eight of them, geography in alphabetical order. The colonnade curves, outsize, all … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 7 August 2011 (Erika and the Vampire)

Posted on August 7, 2011 by epbeaumont

Erika knew who they were, Zack’s band, as if they weren’t totally blatant about it, with a name like Vlad and the Impalers. Vampire rock, with a lead singer named Drakul aka Drake, who used to be Zack. The drummer, … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 31 July 2011 (The Shape-shifter’s Tale)

Posted on July 31, 2011 by epbeaumont

My job was not a bad job, as my parents reminded me. It was quite a good job, actually, for someone who was not in college (could not be in college), and through one connection or another I had gotten … Continue reading →

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More Lessons from Six Sentence Sunday: Of Sizzle and Slush

Posted on July 29, 2011 by epbeaumont

I signed up for Six Sentence Sunday again this week, so I know what I’m going to be doing this Sunday: reading other people’s posts. Thank heaven for browsers with tabs. I go through the list of links for the … Continue reading →

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