Category Archives: Writing

Tuesday write-in and new Ship’s Heart excerpt!

Posted on May 13, 2014 by epbeaumont

Here I am out in White Bear Lake at Your Mom’s Basement, a gaming cafe where Tuesday nights see tournaments for Magic, the Gathering, among other tabletop and computer games. (Absolutely awesome for random snippets of arcana from someone else’s … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 11 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 11, 2014 by epbeaumont

It wouldn’t be for at least a year (an eternity at seventeen and eighteen) that the rota would come round to pair us, if it ever did , so I took matters into my own hands, and invited Jehen on … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: The Genre Queer Manifesto (For Young Writers Who Have Contemplated the Genre Straitjacket, When the Story is Enough)

Posted on May 10, 2014 by epbeaumont

(For Stephanie, on the occasion of her MFA.)In November 2010, I finished my first ever NaNo novel, the first one that had a completed story arc, the first one that I could hand over to beta readers.  I sent it … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction: Headspace

Posted on May 6, 2014 by epbeaumont

Once upon a time on the Original World, there was an old man who traded one eye for wisdom. The story is ancient; it came with us on the journey-ships, and traversed the Original Jump. Scholars tell us that it … Continue reading →

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Bricklaying: slow start to a new novel (Ship’s Heart)

Posted on May 6, 2014 by epbeaumont

Some writing is like flying: an exhilarating natural process that nonetheless feels like pure magic. Some writing proceeds at walking pace, like a conversation. And some writing is work: writing down one sentence after another, like laying bricks. It’s not … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 4 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 4, 2014 by epbeaumont

I am still absorbing the shock of seeing Jehen again after fifteen years, as long as Martisset yr Astok the Elder served as a starship captain. He retired to pursue clan-politics, which are the politics of Karis and the Inhabited … Continue reading →

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Writing in Community: the mirror of friends, and the backward glance

Posted on May 3, 2014 by epbeaumont

Two weeks ago, I learned about a writing grant opportunity, with about a week to put together an application. I struggled, but I didn’t make the deadline. The project that most needed outside help was also the project that was … Continue reading →

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May Day post: Citizen of Utopia (from The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on May 1, 2014 by epbeaumont

It’s a dream, of course: the Customs stop where you declare your goods, your self, your intentions, your history, your citizenship, your blood and bone.  What are your intentions, what you seek, where you seek it, whence you come and … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 27 April 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on April 27, 2014 by epbeaumont

Once I would have said I wanted “freedom” — the freedom to range, to explore, to soar as high as I liked — but I wouldn’t have said that, because freedom was the atmosphere in which I swam. Once I … Continue reading →

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Goals: On Getting the Groove Back (Part 1)

Posted on April 22, 2014 by epbeaumont

Now something over three weeks into my full-time work as a self-employed writer, I’ve spent a good part of my time setting up: Reading software manuals (Aeon Timeline and Scrivener, of which more later) and thinking about how to use … Continue reading →

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