Tag: scifi
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Crush Depth 14: Chapters 24-26 – The Aftermath
Older posts can be found at the bottom of the main Crush Depth page. In the last post, the mosasaurs attacked in waves and the crew of the habitat fought them off. This is somewhat different than the first two Crush Depth drafts where there was one big attack that the submarine wasn’t able to…
Ryan Patrick
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Crush Depth 13: Chapters 21-23 – The Big Attack
Old posts are on the main Crush Depth page at the bottom. This has been the midpoint of every single draft – and, yes, this is the fourth full version of this story concept! Versions 1 and 2 had the mosasaurs attack the USS Arizona, Versions 3 and 4 switched that to the underwater habitat…
Ryan Patrick
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2025 In Review – Sales & Finances
I’m very transparent about my writing, especially the business side of things. This is a very secondary source of income for me – I do this more to get people to read my books than to make any real money off of it. If you DM or email me, I’ll send you 1 or all…
Ryan Patrick
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Jan 2026 Update & Monthly Goals
Still doing these! The Saturn Anomaly Still at the Pentagon, but it’s fully edited. The only work I’ve done on it is to do some math on how long it’ll take after I get clearance to publish it – 60 days is what it worked out to. Hoping to hear back and set a release…
Ryan Patrick
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2026 Writing Goals
Going to try this again. Last year’s goals were a mixed bag. Going to do a blog post in January on wasted words, and another on improving my processes. I want to get to a steady-state output of two published books a year and given how long the development effort is for a single book…
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Crush Depth 12: Chapters 18-20 – Just Before the Big Attack
These have been done for a week or so but I’m just getting around to doing this now. Old ones are here at the bottom of the page. If you saw my last post you know that I went back and rewrote a ton of what I have, mostly in a flow state in the…
Ryan Patrick
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End of Year Review
Going back to this and do a self-evaluation. Mostly good, but some big misses. The Europan Deception Easily my biggest success this year. All goals met and I couldn’t be happier with my results. Crush Depth Partial success. I did write a version of Crush Depth and got feedback on it but ended up junking…
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Crush Depth 11: New Chapters 1-17
As I mentioned in the last blog update (they all can be found at the bottom of the page here) I went back and rewrote all 40,000+ words in the last few weeks. Here’s the new version: As you can see it’s a very different book based on the same concept. I’m leaning into some…
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Crush Depth 10: Redo!
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before (and no, I’m not singing “Miami” by Taking Back Sunday) – I’m rewriting Crush Depth. I noted in my last update that I had slowed down. I wasn’t getting the words out. It wasn’t fun anymore. So I did what I normally do – I converted my…
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End Nov 25/Start Dec 25
Not my best writing month, but it ended well, and it bodes well for December and January. Work and family stuff took a lot of my time, The Saturn Anomaly Still at the Pentagon, but at least the government reopened and hopefully they’ll get to my book soon! I also went through all of my…
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