It all begins with a blank sheet of paper. Whether words on a page, photographs in an album, or bedtime stories from a book, they all begin with the figurative blank sheet of paper. I’ve read of writers who miraculously put pen to paper and have words flow like rain water gushing from a gutter…

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Louis L’Amour wrote, “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” I assumed my move to the sleepy little beach town of Beaufort on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast would be temporary, a year or two at most. That was almost three years ago. And now the Crystal…

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