Tag Archives: Fantasy

Six Sentence Sunday, 5 February 2012 (The Necromancer and the Barbarian: a Love Story)

Posted on February 5, 2012 by epbeaumont

In the second decade of the twenty-first century, as the earth began to warm and the seas to rise, something woke from sleep. At first it was odd incidents here and there, but by the time that Elsa was a … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 29 January 2012 (The Necromancer and the Barbarian: a Love Story)

Posted on January 29, 2012 by epbeaumont

“And I froze him,” Raina said, and her outlines sharpened, until there was a human-shaped void with a corona of moonlight about it, and a face, dimly seen, that might be bone or flesh; it seemed to slide from one … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 22 January 2012 (The Necromancer and the Barbarian: a Love Story)

Posted on January 22, 2012 by epbeaumont

Elsa remembered the eerily real anatomical models in the museum of La Specola in Florence: the sleeping Venus with her braided hair and her hinged belly, that showed the layers of the insides; the fingerbones wearing the veins and arteries … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Enter the villain (at long last!)

Posted on January 12, 2012 by epbeaumont

I know a story exists when it begins to tell itself, or when a character turns to look at me. And I’m learning, very slowly, how I need to rest between bouts. What I mean by “when a character turns … Continue reading →

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(Post) NaNoFeed: notes from the editorial charnel house

Posted on December 29, 2011 by epbeaumont

“Kill your darlings.” It’s attributed to Virginia Woolf, but someone else said it. She just lived by it. In a draft or two, I’m hoping to follow her example. I’m currently lighting votive candles at the altar of St. Virginia … Continue reading →

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NaNo 2011 novel revision plan, revised version

Posted on December 12, 2011 by epbeaumont

From long experience, I know that I get things done, however ambitious my lists of things to do. However, hardly ever do I get them done on the original timeline. As I’m looking at the missing pieces of this year’s … Continue reading →

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The curious dance of order and chaos

Posted on December 9, 2011 by epbeaumont

After yesterday’s break, I realized that it was indeed “rest” rather than “being lazy” that made me take a break from looking at the NaNo novel. Today I woke up with very clear ideas about the missing parts: how the fantastic … Continue reading →

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Finishing the darn thing…

Posted on December 6, 2011 by epbeaumont

… isn’t easy, but neither is landing a plane. In stories as in chess, the opening and the endgame open up abysses under our feet. Desperate to stuff all of the important parts into Necromancer and Barbarian before National Novel … Continue reading →

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Revolutionary endgame, or some thoughts about Happy Ending

Posted on December 3, 2011 by epbeaumont

I’ve been thinking about the whole question of the Happily Ever Ending as I’ve been thinking out the ending of my NaNo novels, The Shape-shifter’s Tale (2010) and The Reincarnations of Miss Anne (2009, unfinished).  The 2010 NaNo was the first … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 23 October 2011 (The Lost Pissarro)

Posted on October 23, 2011 by epbeaumont

“Of course she does,” Stavros said. “I looked her up. They haven’t found any of them,” She didn’t want to say aloud what she could all too easily imagine: she would die, and they would dismantle that tiny apartment, and … Continue reading →

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