Finding the Right Word & Clicking into Place

Meet Peter Mark Roget (pronounced "Roh-Zhay"), without whom many writers today would be:

at a loss,
pulling our hair out,
in utter despair,
wracked with misery!

Peter was a collector. He collected words, made lists, and categorised them accordingly. Peter scribbled words and built his list. He'd been building it since he was eight.

Words,
Peter
learned,
were
powerful
things .
And
when
he
put
them
in
long,
neat
rows,
he
felt
as if
the
world
itself
clicked
into
order.

We follow Peter as he grew into a teen who liked soli...