Category: Posts
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Blog is live!
Well, I bit the bullet and bought the domain and 3 years of hosting. I’m all-in now. Crush Depth is done, 114,000 words and sitting for a bit. The Martian Incident is in its final proofread. Once that’s done, I’ll load it to Amazon and then start preorders. I have a cover, but I didn’t…
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August Update!
Site is going to go live in a couple of months, so I need to get updating! Big news at the end. Crush Depth currently sits at 111,500 words out of a (newly planned) 114,000. It’s in better shape than I had thought it was going to be but is going to need a ton…
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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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May Update
It’s been busy at my day job, so I haven’t had as much time to write or edit. The Martian Incident went to the Pentagon review process today. Hopefully, I’ll hear back from them soon. I think I’m going to put that one out there as soon as it comes back. It’s edited, proofread, and…
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End of March Status
Decided to put a prologue in (per my last post). 15,000 words into a planned 120,000 words of Crush Depth. Really enjoying it so far. Had some friends look at the first three chapters. Not all feedback was positive, so I’m probably going to have to cut heavily and pick up the pace a bit.…
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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 