Tag Archives: Cleopatra’s Ironclads

NaNoFeed: Live from the 28-hour writing tour (The eve of the Ides of March)

Posted on November 17, 2012 by epbeaumont

Cleopatra had a rough night on 14 March 44 BC, like everyone else in Rome. (Special thanks to Bill Shakespeare for the weather report.) During the night the wind rose, and she heard it howling in the wee hours, whistling … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: live from the 28-hour writing tour (murder most foul)

Posted on November 17, 2012 by epbeaumont

I have two murders to write tonight. One is historically attested (the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March 44 BC) in all of its journalistic particulars (who-what-when-why-where-and-how). The other may have been death from natural causes, though … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: from the thickets of research to the sky of speculation

Posted on November 12, 2012 by epbeaumont

Warning: ramblies, lots of them. I have to keep repeating to myself: This project is a sketch at best. After three hours of research for every hour of writing (at a minimum), I have piles of stuff to read though. … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 11 November 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)

Posted on November 11, 2012 by epbeaumont

Cleopatra leaped to her feet and paced. Timaeus–was Timaeus in the burning Library? and then foolishly, but what about the last scroll of the treatise on automata? She wouldn’t know how it turned out. And that she most passionately wanted … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: a different kind of Trip (and an excerpt)

Posted on November 10, 2012 by epbeaumont

This year’s NaNo novel is a challenge, with a lot of reading left undone at the time I began. Increasingly, I’m realizing that this one is less a draft novel than a first sketch. Every novel is a Trip, in … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: not an A-plus student

Posted on November 5, 2012 by epbeaumont

(Dateline: Sunday 4 November; posted now, to avoid colliding with Six Sentence Sunday.) So now, at a write-in, I’m banging out prose, after consulting sources. Every NaNo novel is different, and I’m realizing that this one is being written very … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 4 November 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)

Posted on November 4, 2012 by epbeaumont

The censorious didn’t care for the rites of the god of wine, but he was the protector of the whole dynasty: the god of frenzy and change, the deity of chance. No army moved without proper rations of wine and … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: The ship is launched!

Posted on November 1, 2012 by epbeaumont

Woke up later than I’d originally planned, so now at least I’ve put off a bit the bug that’s going around. It’s mid-afternoon and I’ve scored 1941 words according to Scrivener’s word-count. I’ve posted an excerpt here and I’m already … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed (On the Eve, Part 2): Unprepared

Posted on October 31, 2012 by epbeaumont

On the edge of the cliff now, and it’s too late to do anything but wait for the clock to tick down to midnight. Two days off from the day job, and two more days of weekend, and I’ve set … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Thoughts on Deep Time II – Of Time and the River(s)

Posted on October 24, 2012 by epbeaumont

In the past few weeks I’ve experienced the eerie synchronicity that visits the writer in research mode. I’ve been taking a virtual tour upriver on the Nile River in three different centuries at once, while learning about the sacred rivers … Continue reading →

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