SquarePeg Books

Category: Writing

  • May 2019 IWSG

    What was an early experience where you learned that language had power? Oh. Ummm…. Are we talking about written language or spoken or just language generally? I was in 4th grade when I learned that one was allowed to write without having been blessed from some authority on high. I…

  • Too… Something?

    I haven’t written since the day before the bomb cyclone in March. I was actually winding down, anyway – not because I was done with the particular book, but because I was struggling again. Then my laptop, while functional, has been giving me increasing amounts of electronic geriatric attitude, so…

  • No More Battery Juice

    I made a goal in August 2015 to rough out, from start to finish, Fantasy book 3, by Christmas 2015. I knew it was a bit of a quagmire, but I already had 250 pages of notes and scenes scribbled out, and I knew where I wanted the story to…

  • Lost in the Middle

    What I like most about writing with the muse whispering seductively in my ear is that I kinda know where things are going. I’ve got a beginning, there’s some stuff in the middle and I know how things are going to end in a rough fashion. Of course things change…