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The Black Ribbon

I want to introduce you to something bold I have been working on. Before I get into that let me say that anytime you…
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The Long Game

I was going to write about another topic, but over the holidays I was cleaning out one of my drawers and I found a…
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The Inciting Incident

Note: I will be taking a break for two weeks during the holidays from blogging and will resume on the sixth of January with…
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The Opening (part four)

Now that we have discussed the first sentence and the first paragraph, let’s move on to the following three paragraphs. After that we will…
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The Opening (part three)

Storytelling can be done in many mediums. Movies, plays, operas, animated films, art and of course the written word are the main way we…
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The Opening (part two)

When I set out to write this book, I originally started my story with Nathaniel as an eight-year old boy and quickly moved him…
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The Opening

The opening pages, and really for that matter the opening paragraphs, and more importantly the opening lines of each book – nonfiction or fiction…
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Welcome to the Scriptorium

Welcome to The Scriptorium—your portal to creative insight and discussion. As a fantasy author inspired by the tradition of literary scriptoria, I set out…
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The Premise

I shall begin my blog here because without this one single thought, there wouldn’t be a Scriptorium, or an Inkworld. There wouldn’t be Nathaniel…