Category: Posts

• Improving the Process

  2 months ago I wrote a post on inefficiency following on from a previous post on wasted words. I’ve been a very inefficient writer over the last decade – I just trashed most of a half-complete 45,000 word draft! But I’m getting better, and this is how. Heavy Outlining I’ll admit it – I’m lazy.…

  Ryan Patrick

  May 11, 2026

  efficiency, Posts, Writing Advice

  author, books, creative-writing, fantasy, fiction, indie author, indie books, publishing, reading, scifi, writing, writing-tips

• End of April/Beginning of May 2026

  Not my best month from a writing perspective – my family and day job took priority. But I got some stuff done. The Saturn Anomaly and Crush Depth Still at the Pentagon. The former is ready to go, the latter I’m still doing some proofreading. I’ll probably bug them in May and see if that kicks off…

  Ryan Patrick

  April 30, 2026

  Posts

  author, books, fantasy, fiction, indie author, indie books, publishing, reading, scifi, writing

• AI and Writing – Part 1, AI-Generated Text vs Human Writing

  I am working on some other posts in this vein but they’re longer and require more research than this one. But I am absolutely fascinating by the confluence of AI and creative writing and I feel like I need to start getting my thoughts on it out. Part 1 of this series will be on…

  Ryan Patrick

  April 10, 2026

  Writing Advice

  ai, artificial-intelligence, author, book-reviews, books, chatgpt, fantasy, indie author, indie books, publishing, reading, scifi, technology, writing

• End of March 2026/Beginning of April 2026

  This month flew by. Not much has changed other than on The Saturn Anomaly and Crush Depth Still at the Pentagon. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Not much else to say, I’ll probably bug them again at the end of April. Price of doing business with me writing in the genres I write in, I guess. But Crush Depth…

  Ryan Patrick

  March 30, 2026

  Beginning of Month, End of Month

  author, book-reviews, books, creative-writing, fantasy, fiction, indie author, indie books, novel, publishing, reading, scifi, writing

• OSINT and the -INTs…and what the OSINTers are getting wrong.

  I’ve been fighting with the OSINT morons posting AI videos of the Iran conflict on Twitter/X, trying to pretend they’re experts on intelligence collection and analysis. Spoiler alert: they’re not, and I have all of them muted. I have, though, promised a post on OSINT and why they’re all a bunch of idiots. But that’s…

  Ryan Patrick

  March 17, 2026

  Posts

  ai, artificial-intelligence, news, technology, war

• Inefficiency

  In my last post, I talked about abandoned projects and wasted words. I have only manage to publish a fraction of what I’ve written since I started in 2012. But why is this the case? Why am I so inefficient? In this post I’ll talk through some reasons as to why I think this is…

  Ryan Patrick

  March 4, 2026

  efficiency, Posts, Writing Advice

  author, book-reviews, books, creative-writing, fantasy, fiction, indie author, indie books, publishing, reading, scifi, writing, writing-tips

• End of Feb 2025/Beginning of Mar 2025

  Not a terrible month, but could have been better. The Saturn Anomaly Still at the Pentagon in its prepublication security review. I pinged them in the middle of the month and they told me that there’s still a DOD element that needs to approve it. Waiting and waiting…hopefully with a resolution soon! Crush Depth Also…

  Ryan Patrick

  February 27, 2026

  Beginning of Month, End of Month, Posts

  author, book-reviews, books, fantasy, fiction, indie author, indie books, publishing, reading, scifi, writing

• Why the Pentagon Can’t Pass an Audit

  Posted this to X/Twitter, will post the story here too. I’ve talked about this before, but after I got through grad school I PCSed to Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque and became the mission manager for the STP-2 launch. That launch was a task order on the OSP-3 contract, which had a few different vendors on…

  Ryan Patrick

  February 23, 2026

  Posts

  nasa, news, space, spacex, technology, writing

• Crush Depth 21: Editing

  Old posts are on the main Crush Depth page at the bottom. Ah, editing. Simultaneously my favorite part and my least favorite part of writing. Thankfully, from a big picture standpoint, Crush Depth is in good shape. That’s honestly to be expected considering it’s the fourth draft of the same story concept. But there’s a…

  Ryan Patrick

  February 17, 2026

  crush-depth, Posts, Writing Advice

  author, books, editing, fiction, indie author, indie books, publishing, scifi, writing

• Wasted Words and Canceled Projects

  I threw out a 100,000 word completed manuscript in December of 2025. It was the 2nd full version of Crush Depth – check out my blog post series on it if you want to know how I’ve recovered (and am now on the 4th version). And it stung. I had spent a lot of my…

  Ryan Patrick

  February 13, 2026

  efficiency, Posts, Writing Advice

  author, books, creative-writing, fiction, indie author, indie books, publishing, reading, scifi, writing, writing-tips