SquarePeg Books

Category: Writing

  • My Daily Writing Habit

    I wouldn’t call it a habit. A habit is done almost mindlessly. It’s automatic. You wouldn’t think of doing it because to not do it takes conscious effort. Unfortunately, “habit” is the only word I can think of at this moment that fits, because to write is like an addiction…

  • To Group, Or Not To Group

    That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of other people’s commentary… And I lost it. I could continue with it, but that would require me digging out my Complete Yale Shakespeare, and power-skimming Hamlet for the relevant monologue that I slaughtered above. Anyway. There’s…

  • Outlining – Or Why I Have No Pants

    I’m not an outliner. I don’t have any pants because I’ve written by the seat of them for so long, I’ve literally worn through them. I have patched the ass of my pants so much that the original material is a mystery that has been lost to time. If I…

  • The Grinch Who Doesn’t Like NaNo

    Before we get started, my insecurity today is that I will be hunted down, stoned, hung, decapitated, burned at the stake, my head mailed to some black-market ebay winner and my ashes strewn in three different oceans for writing this post. I’ve re-written this post 8 times, trying to find…