by Justin Swapp | Oct 27, 2012 | Blog
I wanted to give you a quick update about my first finished novel, The Magic Shop. I had finished a draft of The Magic Shop a month or two ago, and I had been revising it. Finally I decided I had gotten it as far along as I could without someone else with ice in her...
by Justin Swapp | Sep 9, 2012 | Blog, Story Structure, videos, writing |
At one point, this notion was a revelation to me. When I first started writing, I didn’t know the difference between a discovery writer, and an outliner. That is because I just sat down and tried to write. Only later did I discover that by being aware of your...
by Justin Swapp | Sep 8, 2012 | Blog, Featured, Short Stories
Follow an unsuspecting foreign exchange student named Sloan Boyle as a seemingly innocent interaction with a stranger in a Spanish Cafe leads to a dangerous series of events, and a weighty discovery that threatens everything Sloan ever knew about this world, and his...
by Justin Swapp | Sep 8, 2012 | Blog, Story Structure, videos, writing
Another fantastic workshop from LTUE (Life the Univerise and Everything) from a few years ago. This one in particular really helped me get unstuck with my writing. I had written over 300 pages on a middle grade novel I was working on, and I was plain stuck. A friend...
by Justin Swapp | Sep 8, 2012 | Blog, Story Structure, videos, writing
How to Write a Story that RocksA few years ago I attended a fantastic workshop called How to Write a Story that Rocks at the Life the Universe and Everything (LTUE) writer’s symposium at Brigham Young University. I participated in what ended up being a wonderful...
