Tag: fantasy
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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…
Ryan Patrick
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Crush Depth 4: Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2
In my update early last month, I talked about how I wasn’t happy with the last draft of Crush Depth and how I was going to start over. Here, the first in the series, I did a postmortem to figure out where I went wrong. Then I did a 3-act summary and expanded that into…
Ryan Patrick
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End of September/Beginning of October 2025
An absolute whirlwind of a month. It was fun while it lasted but I’m glad it’s over! Crush Depth I’ve decided to shelve the current version – you can read about that here. But I’m making a lot of progress on the next iteration – read about my progress here (where I do a quick…
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Crush Depth 2: A Sentence to an Outline
Last week, I talked about what went wrong with the last version of Crush Depth and why I had to throw out a nearly 100,000 word second draft. This week, I’m going to discuss how I am going to go from a new one-sentence summary to a full 3-act outline. It’ll be followed in subsequent…
Ryan Patrick
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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…
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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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