Category Archives: Writing

Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 July 2016 (WIP Ship’s Heart)

Posted on July 3, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** Even in training exercises, her teacher said, Martisset moved with the atmosphere like a skilled rider … Continue reading →

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The Muse of Research: Math and Other Marvels (S. L. Huang)

Posted on June 30, 2016 by epbeaumont

One of the great pleasures of reading is hanging out with folks whose storytelling game is totally different from my own. S. L. Huang writes the action-packed adventures of a mathematical mercenary-superhero, Cas Russell, whose style of math and narration … Continue reading →

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Muse of Research II: Food As World Building (Lev Mirov @thelionmachine)

Posted on June 28, 2016 by epbeaumont

One of the things that draws us inexorably into another world is the food. From Marcel Proust’s cookie that launched a million words to the favorite treats of space station dwellers thousands of years in the future, what we eat … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 26 June 2016 (WIP Ship’s Heart)

Posted on June 26, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** The refectory was another puzzle: bright and airy, as if there were no need to … Continue reading →

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Midsummer Update – Poetry Debut

Posted on June 20, 2016 by epbeaumont

Today my poem “Just So Story (The Four Faces of Luck)” was published in Liminality’s Summer 2016 issue. This poem is one of a group that has come out of world building for the universe of my novels Ship’s Heart, Inside … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 29 May 2016 (theater excerpt)

Posted on May 29, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** VERA. Do you have stormy fights and passionate reconciliations? LOPHUKHOV. No, we try to work … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 22 May 2016 (character interview)

Posted on May 22, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** Naime moves and the priest moves, blank mirror face to hers, and in the negative space … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 15 May 2016 (character interview)

Posted on May 15, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** I know Naime is alive still, six hundred years later, for she underwent one final transformation. She’s … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 8 May 2016 (character interview)

Posted on May 8, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** I miss mortal life, like every spirit in the Between, for there one enters the … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 May 2016 (character interview)

Posted on May 1, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** The roads of the past are already laid; I cannot deviate from them. What happened, … Continue reading →

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