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Things and Ideas (plus 12/12/12)

Everybody is blogging about 12/12/12 so I figured I better get in on this stuff cuz I don’t want my blog to be the only one that Internet archeologists dig up in a thousand years that doesn’t have a mention of this numerical...

December 12, 2012 Patrick Hester 12/12/12, An Uncommon Collection, anthology, Charisma, conversations with my cat, ebook, halley's comet, Life, short story, t-shirt 1 Comments

Another Story in the Wind: An Uncommon Collection (Anthology)

I already told you about the new eBook, Conversations with my Cat, that I released today (you can buy it here).  Well, you also have the opportunity to purchase a shared-world anthology with one of my stories in it, and that’s out today...

November 30, 2012 Patrick Hester anthology, Charisma, CSFWG, ebook, kindle, News, publication, shared world, short story 0 Comments

Writing Journal: Y2 Day 151

I haven’t been keeping up with the writing journal lately.  This is due mostly to not knowing what to say.  Or maybe not having anything to talk about. Sam Kane books 1 & 2 are being shopped by The Agent, which takes time, so...

May 30, 2012 Patrick Hester consumption, focus, journal, Life, sam kane, short story, Writing, writing journal 1 Comments

Writing Journal: Y2 Day 123

It’s been a long time since my last Writing Journal (50 days). I’ve started and stopped several new journal posts in that time.  I can make excuses about why I haven’t journaled, including the whole unemployment thing, but...

May 2, 2012 Patrick Hester editing, focus, journal, Life, sam kane, short story, space battles, Writing, writing journal 2 Comments

Free Story: Sword & Sorcery

Untitled Sword & Sorcery Short Story Length: 4,591 Draft: 1st Draft, no edits by: Patrick Hester © 2011 All Rights Reserved The Witch King, bored, called upon the demi-god Utesh, for inspiration. A hundred bodies littered the ground below...

March 16, 2011 Patrick Hester fantasy, fantasy sword and sorcery, free fantasy sword and sorcery fiction, free fiction, short story, sword and sorcery 0 Comments

Writing Journal: Day 31

Well, after sending the first 50 pages of my novel off to @TyBarbary for beta reading, my word count dropped by about a hundred words.  Ah well, that’s okay – plenty more where those came from. I did that to prep for critique group at...

March 14, 2011 Patrick Hester Life, novel, short story, Writing, writing my novel, writing short stories 0 Comments

Short Story Excerpt: Solar City

Keeping up with the ‘short story a week’ goal I have set for myself, I decided to revisit a piece of Flash Fiction I wrote a while ago called ‘Welcome to Solar City‘.  To this day, it’s one of my favorite pieces and...

December 9, 2010 Patrick Hester excerpt, fiction, short story, solar city, Writing 2 Comments

Short Story Excerpt: Murder

I said I was gonna write a short story a week and one week in, I’m 1 for 1! I even sent it around for some feedback (Thanks to everyone who got back to me – I really appreciate it!!). For now, I wanted to share a little of the story...

December 2, 2010 Patrick Hester exerpt, fiction, ghost, murder, short story 1 Comments
Changes

Changes

I’m looking at making some changes around here. Websites Among the changes I am working on is a change to my websites.  Chiefly, atfmb.com and FunctionalNerds.com. Although I like the design and layout of atfmb.com for the most part, and it...

November 23, 2010 Patrick Hester change, design, eating, habit, Life, long fiction, mountain dew, novelist, short fiction, short story, website, weight, world fantasy convention, Writing 7 Comments

Sample-My New Short Story

One day I was sitting here and I thought, we need more cowboys in space.  This lead me to sit down at the computer and start writing.  The result was originally called ‘The Brothers of Katie Rose’; an homage to the classic western...

August 26, 2010 Patrick Hester cowboy, excerpt, fiction, original, sci fi, science fiction, short story, space, western, Writing 4 Comments
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