SquarePeg Books

Tag: Creative

  • The Inspiration

    Or the Origin Story. Whichever. Characters have origin stories. Bob was born in a rail car outside Tampa during a rainstorm, his mother being attended to by three bears and an alien from the Crab Nebula, also named Bob, but pronounced “Jerome.” My origin story is not quite so awesome. I’ve run across people as…

  • Technology and Writing

    I lurk in dark and sordid places on the internet where I find writers are wont to gather. Sometimes I say something. Most times I do not. A while back, someone posted a request for information. Apparently, this person had sent out their manuscript to a few readers, and they’d come back with the critique…

  • A mosey or a sprint?

    Sometimes I sprint when I write. I emphasize “sometimes.” My sprints look something like this: I’m puttering along, minding my own business, scribbling ideas, nit-noiding over word choices, plot ideas, whatever for manuscript X when suddenly, in walks the muse. My muse and I have a … Well, I don’t know what we have, exactly.…

  • I Feel Like Crap….

    I took a kind of “sabbatical” from writing starting at about Halloween. It’s the end of January now and I’m still not writing much. You see, I have twin children. And my parents and my in-laws in the immediate area. So when the holiday season gears up, things get a little crazy. This year, I…

  • Pseudonyms

    Kattywampus Books is obviously a pseudonym. Someday I hope it will be the name of my little self-publishing enterprise, but right now it’s just a name. There are arguments both for and against pseudonyms. Against Using a Psuedonym 1 – You should be proud of what you do. If you’re not proud of it, you…