Category Archives: Writing

Muse of Research Writer Interview #1 (short version) up now! Writer Tech news! and more!

Posted on March 17, 2015 by epbeaumont

The first of the Muse of Research interviews, with Lev Mirov (@thelionmachine on Twitter), has been published on the Skiffy and Fanty Show. Go check it out! This is the short version, 1000 words or so. An extended version will … Continue reading →

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From Fan Fiction to Original Fiction: On Second Person (Excerpt)

Posted on March 17, 2015 by epbeaumont

There’s a lot of advice out there saying not to use second person, ever. Like any absolute rule, it’s wrong. Decades after reading it, I still remember the chapter about arrest and detention in the first volume of Solzhenitsyn’s GuLAG … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 15 March 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on March 15, 2015 by epbeaumont

Mattei Light-foot had passed his adulthood rites and been selected for the draft to the Academy at Karis, when he died of a skull fracture in one of the maintenance corridors abutting the ill-fated Dome Seven, only a week before … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 8 March 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)

Posted on March 8, 2015 by epbeaumont

Four centuries ago, for a variety of reasons, I took the literal mask. It is not useless ornament; its communication leads keep me in constant touch with what I must know. Just now the embedded AIs are unscrolling for me … Continue reading →

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Writer Tech: The official series launch!

Posted on March 5, 2015 by epbeaumont

The Writer Tech series began as a series of on-line and off-line conversations with colleagues about things that worked for their writing practice. There are two obvious faces to this: technique (what we do and how we do it) and … Continue reading →

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Goals: The backward glance and the road ahead! With extra awesome!

Posted on March 4, 2015 by epbeaumont

This month I had to adjust a couple of timelines, particularly the ones for beta reading. I had hoped to get a nonfiction project and a novel to beta readers for 1 March, which did not work out. That timeline … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 March 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)

Posted on March 1, 2015 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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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 22 February 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)

Posted on February 22, 2015 by epbeaumont

Until we meet the wider world, we think “our ways” are “the way.” You learn the geography of each of the Inhabited Worlds, and the spatio-temporal fabric of Ordinary Space and the Jumps, but in spite of the mathematics of … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 15 February 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)

Posted on February 15, 2015 by epbeaumont

I don’t remember being born the first time, nor do I remember the First Song they sang to encourage my gene-mother Sita in her labors. There were three of them leading that chorus, Matar and Estrel and Altair. My gene-father … Continue reading →

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Saturday night and we’re doing the beta bop (well, and reviews)

Posted on February 14, 2015 by epbeaumont

Today in Minneapolis we had brilliant sun that cast icy-blue shadows on the snowy roofs, and that pale blue sky that tells you it’s colder than cold outside. So I hung out on my couch, chatted with folks on Twitter, … Continue reading →

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