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Summer NaNo: Novel Cook Pot (anything is a writing prompt)

Posted on May 8, 2012 by epbeaumont

When you are a writer, anything is a writing prompt. There’s nothing quite so powerful as the arbitrary set of ingredients. I’ve used a very elaborate set of constraints (aka the Novel Cook Pot) for each year’s National Novel Writing … Continue reading →

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Summer NaNo: Novel Cook Pot, installment 1

Posted on April 3, 2012 by epbeaumont

Once you’re a writer, everything is a writing prompt. This summer I’m going to do a NaNo novel. The formal challenge is to do a plot skeleton and play it in counterpoint against the character interview. The responses to the … Continue reading →

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Summer NaNo: In the Good Ole Summertime (Unconventional Beach Books)

Posted on March 29, 2012 by epbeaumont

In the good ole summertime… … It’s time to write a novel. That, and to lie around in hammocks reading huge books. My notion of a beach read is somewhat different from the usual: it’s books that require large stretches … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: NaNo 2011 is finished, and now a backward look

Posted on February 8, 2012 by epbeaumont

Last night around 9:30pm I finished writing the endgame of my 2011 National Novel Writing Month project, The Necromancer and the Barbarian: A Love Story. I promptly sent the revised full manuscript and the replacement final chapters to my beta readers. … 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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NaNoFeed, the Sequel: What makes it all worth while

Posted on December 1, 2011 by epbeaumont

Exhausted and speedy all at once, after two days away from the novel. As my buddy Devin Harnois puts it, “I want to take a nap and conquer the world.” But tonight I went to our region’s TGIO (Thank God/Goodness … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Genre Trouble, part 1

Posted on November 30, 2011 by epbeaumont

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’m taking a little time off from my novel … well, at this point, a one-day break. Tomorrow, December 1, I start work again. Last night I came home late and did what I hadn’t … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: a backward glance o’er traveled roads, or Quitting While Ahead

Posted on November 29, 2011 by epbeaumont

It’s November 29, and I’m done. The story is not finished; in fact, the story has developed not only legs but a few other appendages (tentacles, perhaps?) and is wildly propagating in unanticipated directions. I’m not sure if the things … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Necromancer and Barbarian (six-sentence excerpt: the midsummer party)

Posted on November 28, 2011 by epbeaumont

She dozed in the starlight with his head on her shoulder and his soft hair on her neck and breast; the scintillating sky stretched overhead and the year to come lay open at this hinge of the year, a book … Continue reading →

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