Last time I posted, I sounded a little overwhelmed by the threads I needed to nail down to finish Void. Today, I can safely report that I’ve finished the 6th Chapter, and am confident that I’ve set the third act up in such a way as to be able to be confident of a quick Chapter… Read More Quick Void Update
I’ve been told by people that it’s impressive how much progress I’m making in these projects I’m doing. I appreciate their appreciation, and prefer that I’m actually getting things done instead of aspiring to them. But I, as the author, know better. Void is a pain in my butt. Because I’ve been writing it for a… Read More Struggling Through the Void
A bunch of merry business has gone by. Allow me to fill you in: The Party At the Last Tomorrow is finished. Drafted, anyway. I’m going to go back in the summer and give it a thorough edit, tie down some loose threads, establish the things in the early chapters that I pantsed in the… Read More Pre-Vacation Update
In the past, I’d finish a chapter of something and let it marinate, let my juices recharge, get back to the next chapter when I’ve a mind to. That approach, it no worky. So the fifth Chapter of Void is finished. I’m not going to post a link to it, because Void chapters are spoken for by… Read More UJ9 Upcoming, Outlining LT6
First, update to The Party at the Last Tomorrow (Click image to go to Tablo and read it) I am now 4 chapters and about 8500 words into this one. That’s the least amount of progress on any of the things I’m working on right now, which is surprising because it’s the one I conceived earliest. I… Read More The Year of the Three Novellas (which are probably novelettes, but whatever)
First off, I’ve ditched the custom URL. Decided it wasn’t worth the cost. I’ll keep the address as plain andrewjpatrick.wordpress.com, unless I decide to buy a custom Content Blues. Which I might do. Secondarily, another theme change! Last one was too artsy. The content was getting hid, and I was never satisfied with the typeface… Read More Changes and Additions
Chapter 3 of Void got finished last night (I’ve made some minor edits to the first few chapters). It will be part of Unnamed Journal, Issue 7, which is supposed to be out November 15th. That will be our year anniversary issue, so check the Facebook Page. Big changes will be afoot: a free back… Read More Progress on the Writing Front
In the minds of many authors, there are two ways to write a piece of fiction: Outlining (“Prepping”). You figure out what’s happening, who the characters are, the arcs, everything. You do this before you’ve “written” a single word. Then, when you do sit down, you have a plan. Discovering (“Pantsing”). You sit down and… Read More Prepping vs. Pantsing, Outlining vs. Discovering – Where I come down on the Great Writer Divide
One of the sci-fi novellas I’m working on right now, Void, has a theme about space travel and the hell it plays with time. When I wrote Solar System Blues, I avoided this by making the ship in question travel at below-light velocity, and deliberately making the voyage a long one. Even then, the fact that Burton… Read More Time in Space
Some stuff I’ve been working on. Here’s a free chapter to The Party at the Last Tomorrow, my post apocalyptic homage to Edgar Allen Poe: Muse staggered her way along the Last Call Causeway, amid the broken rocks and occasional bones. Her brain was screaming at her to sleep. With each step the saccharine synth ploddings… Read More Free Fiction Fest
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