Author: Ryan Patrick
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End of September Update
It’s been another whirlwind of a month, with a lot of both work and personal travel. But it’s been an incredibly productive one! Writing I finished The Europan Deception and queried it to a still-unnamed small press. If they take it, I’ll go with them, if they don’t, I’m debating going to another small press…
Ryan Patrick
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My Writing Journey
I was going to write a post this month on something else, but I was at my brother’s wedding out in Texas and my mom gave me some printouts of my old stories. It made me incredibly nostalgic, and really put how far I’ve come into perspective. I started when I was maybe 9 or…
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September 2024
Going to be another busy month before (hopefully) things calm down a little in October. I have a couple of work trips and my brother’s wedding so I’ll be traveling quite a bit, but I think I’m going to be able to get a lot done. Writing Need to finish up the last few thousand…
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End of August Post
Not one of my busiest months, but it was up there. Still was incredibly successful across my writing, reading, and gaming! I did get a writing-related post in here (my list of helpful writing resources!) but I didn’t quite get my GPS/PNT one done. That’ll come next month. Writing I went from 90,000 words on…
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Writing Resources
Going to collect all of the different resources that I find helpful in one post. Hope it helps someone and I’ll be referring back to it a ton later. It’ll be divided into three sections: writing craft, feedback, and business. Writing Craft Sanderson This is the “how to” of writing. The best place I recommend…
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August 2024 Goals
Going to be another busy month as I push to get The Europan Deception done and into its next phase! Writing In my writing, I want to get to 120,000 words done (out of a currently-planned 140,000) for that book. I hit 50,000 last month and I don’t see it being an issue in August.…
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End of July 2024
What a month! I had my most productive writing month since 2020, somehow putting down over 60,000 words, mostly on The Europan Deception, which I hope to have an update on soon. That book is a blast. I added a couple of POVs – characters who had been main characters in the last draft getting…
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Types of Rockets
Like my posts in May and June about orbits and remote sensing respectively, this is a 100-level overview on the different kinds of rockets and how they can be used in sci-fi writing. Note that I’m only going to go through the four primary methods for a rocket to get out of a gravity well,…
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How I Outline
“How do you manage to write a book?” I get this question quite a bit, from mixed-experience writing servers on Discord to my own mother in a phone call. And, despite my best efforts to sabotage myself, I have written six novels – two of which are self-published, the other four in various stages of…
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July 2024 Goals
Going to be a busy month between work, my wife’s grad school, my older two on swim team, and a couple of vacations. Still planning on getting a lot done! Reading This month, I want to get through: A bunch of these are books I’ve either bought and put off reading, or am getting from…
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