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January 2025 Goals
This is it, the start of the new year! I have a lot of writing goals for the year, and this is where it all begins. Writing The Europan Deception I’ll be editing this one hardcore in January and February. I had 15 beta readers’ worth of feedback and I’ll be incorporating a lot of…
Ryan Patrick
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End of December 2024
The month went by quickly! Onto 2025. Writing I was about 55,000 words into Crush Depth when I realized that one of my subplots – carried from previous versions – no longer works. Thankfully, I have a fix! Just need to work it in. I’m probably on track to finish in April or May, pushing…
Ryan Patrick
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2025 Goals
2025 is going to be a big year for me. If everything holds, it’ll be the year I release The Europan Deception, my white whale – the book I’ve always wanted to write and that’s kept me going as I’ve improve my craft. I’ve got a lot of other things I’m working on too. I…
Ryan Patrick
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Start of December 2024
Last month of the year! And what a year it’s been. I released my 2nd book, left the military, joined Blue Origin, and finally finished The Europan Deception. Here’s what’s on tap for December: Writing Would love to get to 60,000 words done of Crush Depth. 15,000 words/month is a lot less than I did…
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End of November 2024
It’s been a great month from a personal and professional standpoint, but my writing’s been slower than I’d like. If you want to follow along with the prototype Blue Ring satellite I’ve been working on, Spaceflight Now is tracking the status of the first New Glenn launch that will take it to orbit – the…
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Pentagon Prepublication Review
I’ve talked a lot, both here and on Twitter, about how all of my books have to go through a prepublication security review. But what is it? Who has to do it? How much of a pain is it? If you’ve signed a non-disclosure agreement with the U.S. government for a security clearance, you’ve entered…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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