Category: Miscellaneous
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An Update, and a Pivot
Day job has been keeping me swamped. I’ve had very little time to write this month. First, the bad news. Lag Delay has not been doing well on the querying front. I believe that the first third to half of the book needs to be completely rewritten in order to capture the modern reader. This…
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To prologue, or not to prologue?
This has been one of the trickiest parts of Crush Depth (the novel I’m currently drafting) – do I include a prologue, or do I start at Chapter 1? A few years ago, I would have definitely had a prologue to start the story off. Now, I know better – in traditional publishing, agents and…
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Focus
The last few years, I’ve been writing a lot, but I’ve been all over the place. It’s time to focus in and finally start publishing some of my stuff. I’m doing two passes of The Martian Incident, one for content, one a line-by-line copy edit. After that, it’s off to the Pentagon for a security…
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Changes
It looks like my time in the military is going to come to a close sometime in the next year or so. I just don’t have the same dedication that I used to, and I think my time is up. I’m up for a move next summer and I don’t want to uproot my family…
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The start
I’ve tried this in the past, and haven’t really gotten anywhere or kept up with it. I’ve been writing for a long time, but decided to get serious about it a couple of years ago. Now, I have a bunch of books ready, and finally made the decision to go with my real name (there…
Ryan M. Patrick 