Tag Archives: Excerpt

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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From Fan Fiction to Original Fiction: On Second Person (Excerpt)

Posted on March 17, 2015 by epbeaumont

There’s a lot of advice out there saying not to use second person, ever. Like any absolute rule, it’s wrong. Decades after reading it, I still remember the chapter about arrest and detention in the first volume of Solzhenitsyn’s GuLAG … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 15 March 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on March 15, 2015 by epbeaumont

Mattei Light-foot had passed his adulthood rites and been selected for the draft to the Academy at Karis, when he died of a skull fracture in one of the maintenance corridors abutting the ill-fated Dome Seven, only a week before … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 8 March 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)

Posted on March 8, 2015 by epbeaumont

Four centuries ago, for a variety of reasons, I took the literal mask. It is not useless ornament; its communication leads keep me in constant touch with what I must know. Just now the embedded AIs are unscrolling for me … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 March 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)

Posted on March 1, 2015 by epbeaumont

I am Temn yr Astok, and at this late date it does not matter who my parents were, or who sponsored their marriage. I am the Astok great-clan, pure and simple, except for a few rivalrous upstarts. There are days … Continue reading →

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Writer Interview: Veronica Scott (Romance & Adventure from the Ancient Nile to the Deeps of Space!)

Posted on February 24, 2015 by epbeaumont

Veronica Scott’s work ranges from paranormal romances set in ancient Egypt to action-adventure space operas (Mission to Mahjundar, Wreck of the Nebula Dream, Escape from Zulaire). I first met her on Six Sentence Sunday; we have continued our acquaintance on … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 22 February 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)

Posted on February 22, 2015 by epbeaumont

Until we meet the wider world, we think “our ways” are “the way.” You learn the geography of each of the Inhabited Worlds, and the spatio-temporal fabric of Ordinary Space and the Jumps, but in spite of the mathematics of … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 15 February 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)

Posted on February 15, 2015 by epbeaumont

I don’t remember being born the first time, nor do I remember the First Song they sang to encourage my gene-mother Sita in her labors. There were three of them leading that chorus, Matar and Estrel and Altair. My gene-father … Continue reading →

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