Tag Archives: NaNoWriMo

NaNoFeed: The first Monday of the rest of my life

Posted on November 3, 2014 by epbeaumont

This is the first year I’m doing National Novel Writing Month as a full-time writer. Unfortunately, it’s also the year I’m doing it as a part-time sick person. So I’m timing work bouts around the schedule for taking pain meds, … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: Workaholism, sustainability, and toxic standards

Posted on October 29, 2014 by epbeaumont

For the last few weeks, I have been doing a lot of sleeping. During the day I’ve had very little energy, and have been spending quality time on my couch, reading novels and exploring new reaches on Twitter. I have … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: getting in shape for the marathon

Posted on October 28, 2014 by epbeaumont

Tonight I’m at the Municipal Liaisons’ write-in at Your Mom’s Basement in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. It’s dark and windy outside, with the neon of the strip mall showing in the darkness across the street. Earlier we had lowering grey … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: In honor of a new writing year

Posted on October 27, 2014 by epbeaumont

I was a student, and then worked with students, for enough years that each new quarter or semester marked a new schedule, and therefore an opportunity for thinking about how I was going to structure my time. Talking with a … Continue reading →

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Goals: Almost November!

Posted on October 21, 2014 by epbeaumont

It’s been a very challenging summer. I just moved back into my apartment, following the demolition and reconstruction of my sleeping space to repair damage from mold. I’ve had a nagging cough for the last month, along with many of … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 June 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on June 1, 2014 by epbeaumont

Early on, my half-brother and half-sister and I formed a triad for dancing. The Second Prime is the number of music, for there is the drum, the dance, and the song, the trinity that flows between the dancers as the … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 25 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 25, 2014 by epbeaumont

A great advantage of being a sentient starship is that you never have to think about what to wear! I am arrayed in all the splendor of my great hull, my sensors, my Artificial Intelligences, my glorious power-plant, and my … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 18 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 18, 2014 by epbeaumont

We live, we love, we inhabit this moment. And it doesn’t matter if you’re in a fleshly body or a cyborg larger than the whales of the Original World; those rhythms go on.  I dance in the solar winds of … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 11 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 11, 2014 by epbeaumont

It wouldn’t be for at least a year (an eternity at seventeen and eighteen) that the rota would come round to pair us, if it ever did , so I took matters into my own hands, and invited Jehen on … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 4 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 4, 2014 by epbeaumont

I am still absorbing the shock of seeing Jehen again after fifteen years, as long as Martisset yr Astok the Elder served as a starship captain. He retired to pursue clan-politics, which are the politics of Karis and the Inhabited … Continue reading →

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