The weekend was good to me. 3400 words one day, 4300 the next. Not too shabby. When I started writing Cold as Ice, the story flowed really well. I wrote the first part fairly quickly before my mind, racing ahead, forced me to skip a pivotal scene so I could get the second chunk...
I was sitting at writers group a couple months back, listening while someone was giving a critique to someone else, when the gentleman to my left leaned over and asked, “Do you write everyday?” “Yes,” I said, explaining my lunch time ritual of taking the laptop off and putting down as many words as...
So. I decided to do these journals by year and day rather than just starting the numbering over or continuing it on. The Agent First up – news that I broke on Twitter – I have an agent now. After a slew of rejections, some form, some not, Mr. Bob Mecoy called to say...
Well, It’s been a couple weeks since I put out a writing journal, so I thought I’d get you up to speed on the projects I’ve been working on. Sam Kane: Into the Fire is still out being read by an agent, so I’m trying not to change anything there. Having said that, I...
You know, writing anything is a huge accomplishment. Finishing a novel – it’s huge, don’t get me wrong, but there’s the high, and then the low. I talked a little bit about this when I wrote the post about finishing, but I felt it needed more attention. There’s a couple of reasons why –...
Are there any two words more sweeter in the writers vocabulary? At 92,705 words, I’m done. The novel rewrite is complete. I have poured my soul out onto the digital page for the last six months, and all the hard work, sweat and tears, have finally paid off with those two little words –...
Wow. What a weekend. The last Saturday of every month is Writers Group. I have mentioned this before. This is a fantastic group of people (I think I’ve mentioned that before as well), from a diverse section of genre writing ranging from poetry, flash fiction, horror, general fiction, science fiction and fantasy. What I...
My Novel I talk about ‘my novel’ a lot. Really, there’s more than one. The first, well, second if we’re going by what was written in what order, is my contribution to Epic or High Fantasy. It is nowhere near ready for prime time. I wrote it, then I trunked it until a later...
Man, being sick really put me behind the eight ball (old saying. Look it up.) I am behind on several projects, not the least of which is some posts I promised Sf Signal. I’ve got a couple nights of podcasting to do this week before I can devote any time to stuff and I...
I figured it was time to do some writing updates, since that’s what all of this is really about. Funny enough, the genesis for this piece lies lies in the live episode of ‘I should be writing’ from Mur Lafferty. They were talking about writing and publishing and whether or not to publish your...
About Patrick:
Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and podcasting dude who lives in Colorado with two cats, Dakota and Shadow, who make sure he gets little sleep and always remembers who is really in charge. He writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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