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Crush Depth 7: The Mystery Deepens – Chapters 9-11
Check the Crush Depth page for the previous posts in this series. So in Chapter 8 (the last chapter covered in my previous post) Grace Parkowski and the other two people on the submersible Nautilus narrowly evaded a near-ramming by what they will later discover is a mosasaur and then discovered part of the sunken…
Ryan Patrick
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Crush Depth 6: First Encounter with the Mosasaurus – Chapters 6-8
Not going to link all of the previous 5 blog posts on the development of the third draft of Crush Depth, I’m going to put them on the book’s page and just refer back to it. At the end of Chapter 5, the novel’s protagonist, Grace Parkowski, has just been briefed on her next task…
Ryan Patrick
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Crush Depth 5 – To the Habitat! Chapters 3-5
So far, I’ve: And now we’re going to discuss Chapters 3 through 5! Chapter 3: Parkowski travels down an elevator on the oil rig to the habitat. The journey is like Deep Storm’s but the habitat below is like Sphere’s. At the end of Chapter 2, Grace Parkowski, the main character, is told that she’s…
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Crush Depth 1: In Late, Out Early!
If you read my update from earlier in the month, you know I shelved Crush Depth. It was a hard decision. It’s a 2nd draft and a story idea that I’ve spent a lot of time writing and editing since 2020. And if giving up on the manuscript last time was hard, this one was…
Ryan Patrick
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End of August/Beginning of September 2025 Update
Another month in the books! Actually got a few blog posts in, but wrote a bit slower than I would have liked. Crush Depth Feedback is still trickling in, and I decided to get The Saturn Anomaly out the door to my beta readers before I really dive into the feedback. Still, I don’t think…
Ryan Patrick
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Where My Writing Is Going
Quick thread on my books/series and where they’re going. The Martian Incident was released as a standalone. It now is the first book in a trilogy. I’m 80,000 words into the first draft of The Saturn Anomaly and have the 3rd book nearly outlined. Expect the 2nd novel in late 2025/early 2026. Lag Delay’s standalone…
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The Black Knight
Post on on one of my favorite conspiracy theories, the Black Knight satellite! It’ll play a huge role in the sequel to The Martian Incident, The Saturn Anomaly. For the uninitiated, the Black Knight is supposedly a 13,000-year-old spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin in a nondecaying polar orbit that emits a repeating signal. The existence of…
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End of July/Beginning of August 2025
Going to combine these posts, there’s not much value in keeping them separate. Here’s where I am and where I’m going. Crush Depth Beta feedback has been coming in over the last month and it’s been mostly positive from a developmental standpoint, but there’s a lot that I need to fix at the line level.…
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July 2025 Goals
Smaller goals than the previous few months – the first half of the month is shot with a pair of short vacations. Nevertheless, time to get some writing done! Crush Depth It’s out with my alpha readers – hopefully I can start edits based on their feedback by the end of the month. I’d also…
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June 2025 Wrapup
It’s been a very busy month, but I still got a lot of writing done! Crush Depth Crush Depth‘s 2nd draft is done and I’m doing a round of self-edits before I get it to my alpha and beta readers and into manuscript swaps. It’s good, but definitely needs some more work, and having some…
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