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Flash fiction: The air was crisp

Posted on March 23, 2012 by epbeaumont

Author’s note: In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2009, someone put up daily prompts on one of the forums. I did them in the spirit of warm-ups, but some of them turned into stories. Here is one such. This particular sprint gave … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 18 March 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on March 18, 2012 by epbeaumont

“Thank you, Araminta,” Charlotte said.  She prided herself on the good manners of her house servants, Araminta and her sister Sarah and the footmen, Scipio and Hannibal.  Thomas liked his male slaves to have names out of the classics; it … Continue reading →

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Flash fiction: Going home

Posted on March 16, 2012 by epbeaumont

Author’s note: In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2009, someone put up daily prompts on one of the forums. I did them in the spirit of warm-ups, but some of them turned into stories. Here is one such. Prompt: I want to … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: The MFA I don’t have

Posted on March 14, 2012 by epbeaumont

I recently launched on the project of filing all of my written work in one place, since it was scattered all over my rather overstuffed apartment. My sister suggested that I pretend that I was going to get a new … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Throwing Yourself into Editing

Posted on March 12, 2012 by epbeaumont

Today my colleague Becca Patterson and I are exchanging guest posts on the underrated adventure of editing. To see my post on editing, visit her blog, The Cat’s Mreauow.  It starts when you look up and see just how much … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 11 March 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on March 11, 2012 by epbeaumont

It’s that stupid Vera, on about the data again.  She wants clarification of something or other.  They met, and Vera was talking, and Anne-Marie has to confess that she started thinking about her kitchen and the remodeling she’d like to … Continue reading →

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Flash fiction: The person in the mirror

Posted on March 9, 2012 by epbeaumont

Author’s note: In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2009, someone put up daily prompts on one of the forums. I did them in the spirit of warm-ups, but some of them turned into stories. Here is one such. Prompt: I don’t know … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Everybody is subcultural (Literary fiction is a genre too)

Posted on March 7, 2012 by epbeaumont

Until I started working with the National Novel Writing Month local community in the Twin Cities, my experience with peer-organized writing groups (as opposed to professionally led classes) had been nearly uniformly negative. Now, I feel as if I’ve come … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 4 March 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on March 4, 2012 by epbeaumont

In Utopia, no-place or Eutopia, the good place, dreams are solid as marble and blue as the sea.  Favilla Vogel, whose name means a bird, had been dreaming of flight.  She had her arms wrapped around someone whose face she … Continue reading →

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Flash fiction: Let’s play a little game

Posted on March 2, 2012 by epbeaumont

  Author’s note: In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2009, someone put up daily prompts on one of the forums. I did them in the spirit of warm-ups, but some of them turned into stories. Here is one such. Prompt (and title): … Continue reading →

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