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Ghost Mode

  Ghost Mode – what is it and why am I writing about it? I decided when I launched inkworldsagas.com that I would blog…
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The First Four

I typically don’t write about personal stuff too much in my blog, however this week was a little unusual to say the least. I…
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Sentences

A good sentence packs a punch. Remember that… Several years ago I started a Pinterest page for my gallery of landscape work. While I…
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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…