THE GRAND STORY OF THE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE ADVENTURES OF BARON BRITPOP BLASTFURNACE

Writing Baron Britpop Blastfurnace

Epilogue: The story of writing this novel

Cover design by Mark Starlin (royalty-free image by Andrey_Kuzmin)

During a recent Zoom get-together by some Medium authors, Tommy Paley asked me about writing Baron Britpop Blastfurnace. He said he was interested in my writer’s process. I explained a little about how I wrote the novel, and he said I should write a story about how I wrote this story. So here it is.

Captain Peanut Butter

Around 2008, I started posting silly little stories and thoughts on Facebook (Facebook was still fun back then.) I began writing a series called, “Sayings of renown by Captain Peanut Butter.” Which were just funny sayings using pirate talk. They were very popular with my Facebook friends.

Probably a year or two later, I thought, maybe I could write a novel about Captain Peanut Butter. I briefly toyed with the idea of having him time-travel to meet Hollister Bootstone, a cowboy in the Wild West, who was another character I did on Facebook. But I figured that was stretching things a little too far. So I decided to stick with the pirate heyday of the 1700s.