SquarePeg Books

Category: Writing

  • IWSG September 2019

    If you could pick one place in the world to sit and write your next story, where would it be and why? Somewhere remote. Somewhere that it takes a few hours to get to the nearest neighbor. Lots of trees, but maybe something with a tower above so I can…

  • Writing Advice

    Someone recently asked me why I don’t distribute writing advice. I found that question adorable. There is writing advice ALL OVER THE INTERNET. You can’t sneeze without stumbling over someone’s magic formula for writing advice. “But you should post writing advice. All the other authors do it.” Well, not ALL…

  • IWSG August 2019

      Has your writing ever taken you by surprise? For example, a positive and belated response to a submission you’d forgotten about or an ending you never saw coming? Oh, if only my writing took me by surprise. Just kidding. That’s one of the joys of being a pantser –…

  • IWSG July 2019

    What personal traits have you written into your character(s)? Umm… I think the list would be shorter if we asked what personal traits I didn’t write into my characters. I’ve used so many things – my personal faith, my outlooks on what a relationship should and shouldn’t be, my mule-headed…