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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 31 March (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)

Posted on March 30, 2013 by epbeaumont

Caesar was proving not entirely agreeable to what she needed, abroad at least, if she were to share rule of the sea-kingdoms with him from Rome. She had looked into the law-books at Rome, and shuddered; good Alexandrian matrons and … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 24 March 2013 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)

Posted on March 23, 2013 by epbeaumont

“The temples are carved out of the living rock, and the gods twenty or more times the size of men–as they should be.” “And the great Sphinx—is it true what they say, that it is not a woman but a … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 March 2013 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)

Posted on March 2, 2013 by epbeaumont

“Your administration was notable for crisis, and cool-headed management of same. Quite a performance for a mere chit of a girl.” “I was apprenticed for the role,” she said without heat. “And I had history as a guide. Let the … Continue reading →

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Apprenticing with the Dead: Reading Tolkien 35 Years Late

Posted on January 19, 2013 by epbeaumont

When I was in high school in the late 1970s, everybody was reading Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. I resisted, for reasons I didn’t fully understand at the time. I think if you’d asked me then, I would have … Continue reading →

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Writer Interview: Angela Quarles

Posted on December 21, 2012 by epbeaumont

Angela Quarles writes romance with a fantasy twist. I first met her through Six Sentence Sunday and fell in love with the snippets from her steampunk novel Must Love Breeches, set in the early decades of the nineteenth century. One of … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: With (more than) a little help from my friends, or beta-reading as reward

Posted on December 11, 2012 by epbeaumont

Last night I finished the last cleanup of the zero-draft manuscript of Cleopatra’s Ironclads and sent it off to its first three beta-readers, along with the super-basic beta reading questionnaire that Devin Harnois and I developed for reading each other’s work. … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 9 December 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)

Posted on December 9, 2012 by epbeaumont

“I remember when you were in the palace, when I was stationed here under Gabinius. What a slip of a girl, and yet your eyes—“ She inclined her head and smiled.  “Oh, not their beauty, Your Majesty. Their wisdom. You … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: the long look back (five-year retrospective)

Posted on December 3, 2012 by epbeaumont

On one of the National Novel Writing Month boards (can’t find it now) there’s a thread about what you learned from NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve been thinking about that ever since, but more in terms of what I’ve learned each … Continue reading →

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The Independence Day post I wasn’t going to write

Posted on July 4, 2012 by epbeaumont

I am not a fan of holiday posts, but this gorgeous piece by Aker (Futuristically Ancient) took me on a literary and musical journey through the flip side of the Fourth of July and made me think about why I … Continue reading →

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Doing the Beta Bop: Nothing better than a friend with a big knife

Posted on July 4, 2012 by epbeaumont

There is a rich literature on procrastination and writing… well, it’s simple. We put off writing, because it means abandoning that perfect vision in our heads, in favor of butt in chair,  fingers on keyboard, brain downloading, which produces something … Continue reading →

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