Category: Posts
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Atlantis and My Sci-Fi Series
Now that I’m finally going to release The Europan Deception (my sci-fi thriller set 200 years in the future) next year – unless the Pentagon pre-publication review takes too long – I wanted to write a bit on the ancient legend that underpins the entire series of 8 planned books. Atlantis first appears in Plato’s…
Ryan Patrick
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November 2025 Start-of-Month
Going to be another lowkey month before December, at least unless the New Glenn manage to pull the launch date for the rocket that my prototype satellite I’ve been working on for the last year will be flying on to the left. Writing For November, beta feedback on The Europan Deception is still coming in…
Ryan Patrick
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End of October 2024
After a trip to my old stomping grounds at Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral at the beginning of the month, it was actually a pretty laid-back one! Other than the usual activities of course. I had some small setbacks but for the most part it was a positive 31 days for me. Writing The small…
Ryan Patrick
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Short Stories
There’s a lot of different story lengths for fiction. There’s flash fiction – generally anything under 1500 words, novellas at 15,000 to roughly 45-50,000, and novels above 50k. Short stories – those generally between 1,500 words and 7,500 words, but sometimes can go up to 10,000 – are an area that I am actively trying…
Ryan Patrick
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Position, Navigation, and Timing – GPS!
When I was a kid, if I wanted my parents to drive me to a friend’s house, I had to hope that either they knew where the address was or print out a MapQuest map to guide them. It was a very different time! Now, you just pull up the address in Google or Apple…
Ryan Patrick
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October 2024 Plan
Another month, another plan to not follow! Writing The Europan Deception is still at the small press I queried, and I may try another one before fully going down the self-pub route. More to come! Crush Depth I’m planning to get pretty far into, hopefully go from the current 20,000 words to something like 40-50,000…
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…
Ryan Patrick
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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…
Ryan Patrick
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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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