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Goals: process goals

Posted on May 7, 2014 by epbeaumont

So for the record, my idea of professional output is 7500-10,000 words a day. Right now I’m 1/10 of the way there for today.

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Getting the Groove Back (Part 2): the fine art of multi-tasking

Posted on May 7, 2014 by epbeaumont

As I’m working on getting up to my notion of pro status, there are the product goals (stuff to finish, revise, publish) and process goals (daily output, hours devoted to writing). Today I am working on getting work done on … Continue reading →

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Meanwhile, in another part of the cosmos (Live from the Tuesday write-in: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on May 6, 2014 by epbeaumont

One of the delights of being an independent writer is that you can write in whatever order you like. My friends and I caught the trilogy bug, but I decided to write book 2 first. Now I am writing book … Continue reading →

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Spring at last!

Posted on May 5, 2014 by epbeaumont

And it’s finally acting like spring here, which means actually sweating when I run for the bus, sniffling from all the tree pollen (very romantic season if you’re a tree), and listening to the birds getting lively outside the window … Continue reading →

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Goals: Beginning Again

Posted on May 3, 2014 by epbeaumont

Last night my colleague Becca Patterson and I attended a reading for graduating MFA students at Hamline University in St. Paul. I had the pleasure of hearing a piece that I’d read in an early draft, recognizable still but with … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 13 April 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on April 13, 2014 by epbeaumont

My best friend — what a childish notion. I am very much older and wiser than anyone who would ask such a thing. I am one of a court; I remember those soirees and airship-parties when I was a student … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 1, 2014 by epbeaumont

I am Temn yr Astok, and at this late date it does not matter who my parents were, or who sponsored their marriage. I am the Astok great-clan, pure and simple, except for a few rivalrous upstarts. There are days … Continue reading →

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Cover reveals!

Posted on January 20, 2014 by epbeaumont

In the Laboratory of the Night is up on Amazon now, with other distributors to follow soon. In honor of the release, Glass Knife Press has updated my covers for all three of the published stories. Here they are!

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NaNoFeed: cusswords as world building, and engineering consult in the afterglow

Posted on November 11, 2013 by epbeaumont

This year’s NaNo is a wild ride, and I’m having loads of fun with my usual world-building by tripping over things. A cross-cultural exchange between the Ship’s Captain, Jehen, and her old flame, Martisset, following their romantic reunion. (Warning: Implied … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Correction, it’s blue-collar multicultural space opera

Posted on November 1, 2013 by epbeaumont

Writing the closing bout of our NaNo Day 1 with the inimitable Devin Harnois at our traditional location. And it’s blue-collar multicultural space opera I’m writing, witness the following excerpt (Jehen is one of the Captains of a cybernetic starship). … Continue reading →

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