http://www.justinswapp.com Fiction for your reading addiction Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:02:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.justinswapp.com/2010/08/magic-shop-chapter-7-a-strange-visit/ 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 ... http://www.justinswapp.com/2010/07/the-magic-shop-chapter-6/ 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 ... http://www.justinswapp.com/2010/05/new-novel-is-underway/ Check out acrobat.com and the free writing tools it offers. Its the closest thing to collaborative MS Word that I have seen. Neat! http://www.justinswapp.com/2010/03/acrobat-com-free-writing-tools/ I just posted another flash fiction story that I wrote last night entitled Face to Face. Check it out under the short story section. http://www.justinswapp.com/2010/02/new-flash-fiction-story/ 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 http://www.justinswapp.com/2010/02/how-to-use-the-smicolon/ 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 http://www.justinswapp.com/2010/02/new-short-story-final-exam/ 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 ... http://www.justinswapp.com/2010/02/ltue-2010-at-byu/ 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 ... http://www.justinswapp.com/2009/12/fastpencil-com/ 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 ... http://www.justinswapp.com/2009/12/the-cloud/