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Writing Basics: Active Voice vs. Passive Voice

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As writers, we must always stay vigilant about keeping our readers engaged. If the audience becomes bored of our writing, we run the risk of losing them all together. Whether we write fiction or non-fiction, the best way we can do this is by maintaining the use of active voice in our sentences. In order to do this, we must firmly understand the difference between the active voice and the passive voice. By identifying the subject of each sentence, we can determine whether it uses the active voice or the passive voice.

Blog Break – Revisions and Editing for Oro Goro

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Thanks for being a subscriber to my blog. As promised, my main goal for this blog has always been to share stories and thoughts, and to bring you along in the process while I flesh out and bring life to all the things I've wanted to finish but never got around to doing. I think I've been fairly successful thus far, at least in my own judgment. Most recently, I have shared the last chapter in the Oro Goro story, both in text and through the release of my final video.

New Website (And a Hiccup)

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So this is going to sound like deja vu to anyone who has been paying attention, but I recently migrated my site from the site thoughtbacklog.wordpress.com to this site, thoughtbacklog.com. It was a lot of work getting the site moved to a self-hosted site, and unfortunately I had some work ahead of me prior to being able to really start posting again. Enter the hiccup.

Human History: The Ultimate Inspiration for Creative Writing

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Historians are going to have a tough time recording all the things that have happened in the last few years. What's more, it seems like 2020 is the grand finale in a string of "very interesting years" in our currently times. If you try to write about all the things that have happened in depth, you will be able to write volumes upon volumes about all the tumultuous things that have happened. Sometimes it's hard to think back just five years ago and feel like it was still within this lifetime. But it's true.

What Lies in the Deep – Urban Legends of the World of El Tor

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In the World of El Tor, there is no shortage of local legends that have been established in the various regions where humans have settled. Two of the myths that have seen a wider circulation both involve the mysterious darkness under the water - in Lago Nero, the large lake that separates Caelon from Secessia, and in the Mar de Comercio, (the Sea of Commerce) that hosts the Saibhrean Isles to the Northwest of Caelon.