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Goals, midweek check-in

Posted on April 1, 2015 by epbeaumont

This weekend I spent at work on my writing website (look at the lovely new menus above this post! *preens*) At time of writing, there are over 450 posts on this blog, fortunately well tagged. Nonethless, it took some time … 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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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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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 8 February 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)

Posted on February 8, 2015 by epbeaumont

Inside the Jump / Outside the Dome / Don’t bother looking / There’s nobody home. That’s a children’s rhyme on Sarronny, which contains worlds of paradox and irony: nobody home, but that absence means nobody any good. The Void is … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 February 2015 (The Lost Pissarro)

Posted on February 1, 2015 by epbeaumont

The night before Angie’s New York gallery opening, she and her mentor Florence hung the show. Florence told her the story of the mass witch-burnings in front of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. She spoke in hushed tones, even … Continue reading →

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Goals: On Getting the Groove Back (Part 1)

Posted on April 22, 2014 by epbeaumont

Now something over three weeks into my full-time work as a self-employed writer, I’ve spent a good part of my time setting up: Reading software manuals (Aeon Timeline and Scrivener, of which more later) and thinking about how to use … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 26 January 2014 (Vampire Variations Redux)

Posted on January 25, 2014 by epbeaumont

Terence has a new inamorata.  I’ve told him time after time that this never works out. She’s not one of us. She would not have met him had she not worked in a laboratory, bicycling through the humid night to … Continue reading →

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Publication announcement! and a birthday party! and the NaNoPanel!

Posted on July 3, 2012 by epbeaumont

Sunday 1 July was the first anniversary of this blog. Coincidentally, it’s also the birthday of my patron saint, George Sand. I would have done a nice thoughtful backward-glance post, except that I was caught up in the press of … Continue reading →

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