Tag Archives: Writing

NaNoFeed: the 30-day challenge vs the 30-year challenge

Posted on November 15, 2013 by epbeaumont

Today’s post was originally written as a comment to this awesome post from Kris Rusch, about the instant-success mentality and the NaNo Class of 2010. I guess I’m Class of 2010 also, given that was the first year I managed … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: 25K at the end of day five

Posted on November 5, 2013 by epbeaumont

I missed the first few days of blogging, but I’ll be writing daily from here on. Tonight I did a write-in by g-chat, from the comfort of my own kitchen nook, with the first snow of the season spitting out … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: day one dawns a little late

Posted on November 1, 2013 by epbeaumont

This year, I am setting out to do the Lost Weekend (12,500 words a day in four days) and combine it with a fitness challenge (12,500 steps a day). Ambitious. And I’m already behind, at least on the exercise part. … Continue reading →

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Goals: The Annual Autumn New Year’s Resolution Post

Posted on September 24, 2013 by epbeaumont

It’s been a much too eventful year on the Real Life front, which I haven’t written about here because it’s been enough to do to just keep my head above water in the ongoing weather. To wit: Devin Harnois and … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 2 June 2013 (Vampire Variations)

Posted on June 1, 2013 by epbeaumont

“No more stories, you said, but there are stories that are true, and you ought to know which ones they are.” I won’t add what I overheard without his knowledge, that she knows those stories as well as anyone in … Continue reading →

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Live from CONQuesT: How do you write so fast? (Writer’s Notebook)

Posted on May 24, 2013 by epbeaumont

This afternoon I participated on a great panel called “How do you write so fast?” about habits of productive writers, alongside Devin Harnois and moderator John Hornor Jacobs. All three of us had taken the vow to write our novel … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Works and Days

Posted on May 17, 2013 by epbeaumont

Writing is the only trade I know that has a forty-year apprenticeship. If you talk to me in ten years, I will tell you that it’s the only trade that has a fifty-year apprenticeship. We’re never quite there yet. Always, … Continue reading →

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Writer’s Notebook: Imitations 2 – Durova excerpt

Posted on May 1, 2013 by epbeaumont

A couple of years ago, our MnNaNo writer’s group did regular challenges. This one was set, I believe, by Brian (Expatrie on the NaNo boards): Imitate a given passage from another writer. This week’s Writer’s Notebook entry takes up a … Continue reading →

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Writer’s Notebook: Imitations 1 – Chandler’s ‘Red Wind’

Posted on April 25, 2013 by epbeaumont

A couple of years ago, our MnNaNo writer’s group did regular challenges. This one was set, I believe, by Brian (Expatrie on the NaNo boards): Imitate a given passage from another writer. Here’s my rambling notebook entry with the close-reading (aka … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors, Sunday 7 April 2013 (Vampires in the library)

Posted on April 6, 2013 by epbeaumont

Of course, no one has moved any of these books, Gauss or Galileo or Newton, in simply ages. I read or re-read them, I confess, for much the same reasons as Terence reads his dime-novels, to recapture the thrill of … Continue reading →

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