Category Archives: Writing

Writer Tech (Technique): Lev Mirov on self-care, artistic practice, music, and the writerly zone

Posted on April 9, 2015 by epbeaumont

Edited version of chat interview on Friday, March 20, 2015 9:45 PM EPB: The first question, which I struggle with: what is the balance, for you, between artistic production and self-care? How has it changed over the years? LM: Well … Continue reading →

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Writer Tech: cheap and easy skidproof work surfaces

Posted on April 8, 2015 by epbeaumont

Once upon a time, I had a cool folding keyboard that slid off my lap and never folded up as nicely again. So when I bought the current generation of cool electronics, I said: never again! Here’s the raw material … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: (Mis) Use of the Muse

Posted on April 8, 2015 by epbeaumont

This post is dedicated to my colleague E. E. Ottoman, who raised the question in this Twitter conversation. The glory of Twitter is that you can have conversations with friends and colleagues, then come back to them later. This exchange … Continue reading →

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From Fan Fiction to Original Fiction: Plotting is Pantsing (Excerpt)

Posted on April 7, 2015 by epbeaumont

All writing is improvisation. This cannot be repeated often enough. As a fanfic writer I alternate between writing stuff that just randomly popped up to tug my sleeve, and writing to prompts that appeal to me. There’s a whole very … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 5 April 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on April 5, 2015 by epbeaumont

Blue is the color of life, Mavra had said. As they arrived in the Karis system, Jehen watched the steady blue glow at the planet’s curve. Space shaded from lightless black, the color of Nothing near absolute zero, to the … Continue reading →

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Goals, midweek check-in

Posted on April 1, 2015 by epbeaumont

This weekend I spent at work on my writing website (look at the lovely new menus above this post! *preens*) At time of writing, there are over 450 posts on this blog, fortunately well tagged. Nonethless, it took some time … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 29 March 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on March 29, 2015 by epbeaumont

Behind the crew entered a woman whose ordinary brown skin was threaded with scars on one half of her face, and on the other, gave way to glass and ceramic fittings and an unblinking eye that wasn’t anything natural. Gasps … Continue reading →

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From Fan Fiction to Original Fiction: On Backstory (Excerpt)

Posted on March 24, 2015 by epbeaumont

Ah, backstory. Everybody hates the info-dump, right? Writers hate how much their readers don’t know, and try to spare them the perils of ignorance; readers hate how much stuff the writer is feeding them (Why are you force-feeding me this … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 22 March 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on March 22, 2015 by epbeaumont

Yasmin listened, putting her hands up to feel the bells in her tightly twisted braids. They pulled pleasantly on her scalp; she wiggled her ears and they jingled faintly. Jehen looked at her sidelong; even though she was a year … Continue reading →

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Writer Tech: A Short Autobiography in Writing Tools

Posted on March 18, 2015 by epbeaumont

Notebook and pen. I started writing in pen long before they officially let us handle that deadliest of weapons, so most of my juvenilia are written in ball-point pen in composition books. This is old school, and it’s also evergreen.

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