Well, I finally finished Chapter 7. That one definitely took me longer than the others. This is a key chapter in the book as some plot turning information is revealed. I have a feeling I will have to revise this one heavily, but that will come once I am done with the first draft

Things have been flowing nicely on the first draft of The Magic Shop – until chapter 6. The family had some vacation planned, and so I didn’t get a ton of writing done. I’m getting back now, so I hope to knock this out and move on to the next chapter as soon as I can. This book has been fun so far, because its flowing much nicer than the Cross Chronicles. I took more time to plan this one out....

I started writing on the new novel this week – The Magic Shop. I finished the detailed outline a week or so ago and have been mentally working up to the start of this book. I needed a break from the Cross Chronicles, so I decided to move on to this new fantasy project. I just finished the first draft of the first chapter and I am starting on chapter 2. Things are heating up!

Check out acrobat.com and the free writing tools it offers. Its the closest thing to collaborative MS Word that I have seen. Neat!

I just posted another flash fiction story that I wrote last night entitled Face to Face. Check it out under the short story section.

Semicolon usage has confused many of us since English 101. Today I found a website that uses pretty funny comics to deliver the rules around semicolon usage. Check it out! http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon

I just added a new short story (flash fiction, really) that I wrote this weekend while I was at BYU for the writer’s conference. I posted it in the short story section. Let me know what you think. I named it Final Exam. Thanks Justin

I have the privledge of attending LTUE 2010 at BYU this week/weekend. There are a lot of great authors here giving sound advice to those of us who are persuing the craft. Here is a link to the schedule so you can check out the details. I wanted to call out how impressed I was with a few of the authors (and we still have tomorrow to go too!) John Brown gave a workshop on “How to Write a Story that Rocks!”...

For those of you would be authors/writers out there that are always looking for a new tool to help you be more productive, check out www.fastpencil.com. Its free to use, and they give you one central location to house your work (write), and to find others with whom you may collaborate and edit your work. They recently came out with a free iPhone/iPod app too. Very good stuff. Check it out and let me know what...

I’ve decided to write another short story for a contest they are holding over at www.thenextbigwriter.com. All entrants have to write stories revolving around the lives of people impacted by a dark cloud appearing and hovering over Las Vegas. This should be fun. Also, I found a wonderful website in www.fastpencil.com that helps you organize and collaborate on your writing. GIve it a look. I think I will...