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• End of January 2025 Wrapup

  

  It’s been a month. My company launched our first orbital rocket, and I was part of the team supporting it. I didn’t get anywhere near as much done in my hobbies (weightlifting, writing, reading, video games) as I had planned. But it still was a successful one. Writing I finished the final developmental edits for…

  Ryan Patrick

  January 30, 2025

  Beginning of Month

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• Me and the Fantasy Genre

  Quick blog post on my complicated relationship with the fantasy genre. For two of the genres I write in – sci-fi and technothrillers – my interest is almost self-explanatory. I’m an astronautical engineer who has been fascinated with space since I was a child, of course I’m going to want to read and write books…

  Ryan Patrick

  January 9, 2025

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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

  January 2, 2025

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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

  December 30, 2024

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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…

  Ryan Patrick

  December 2, 2024

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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…

  Ryan Patrick

  November 29, 2024

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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

  November 1, 2024

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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

  October 30, 2024

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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

  October 1, 2024

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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

  September 27, 2024

  End of Month

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