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Have a chapter on me

Have a chapter on me

Rather than a writing journal today, I thought I’d share a chapter from a novel I’ve been working on.  Well, re-working on.  I’ve changed it up based on feedback from one of my critique groups, and some comments on twitter and...

September 16, 2013 Patrick Hester excerpt, fiction, science fiction, scifi, space opera, Writing 1 Comments

Excerpt: Untitled Space Opera

This one has been bouncing around in my head for quiet some time.  I work a little on it now and then when the mood strikes me.  It’s a complicated piece. This week, after complaining that I hadn’t been very productive, I found myself...

December 31, 2010 Patrick Hester excerpt, original, science fiction, scifi, Writing 3 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

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

Excerpt Day 6: The Road to Faloan 2

I have  shared with you a couple of chapter excerpts from ‘The Queen of Shadows’, the book I wrote in 3 days. To be honest with you, I didn’t even pause before I started working on the next book, ‘The Road to...

April 3, 2010 Patrick Hester darius, excerpt, fantasy, fiction, free, Life, wizard, Writing 0 Comments

Excerpt Day 5: The Road to Faloan

I managed some good stuff on the sequel to my ‘written in 3 days’ book ‘The Queen of Shadows’, and wanted to share some of it with you here today.  Yesterday, I introduced you to a couple of characters who were being put...

April 2, 2010 Patrick Hester darius, excerpt, fantasy, fiction, free, Life, wizard, Writing 0 Comments

Excerpt Day 4: The Queen of Shadows 2

Yesterday, I introduced you to the book I wrote in 3 days, ‘The Queen of Shadows’.  Well, at least to one of the better bits of it. In order to setup tomorrow’s excerpt from the sequel, ‘The Road to Faloan’, I wanted...

April 1, 2010 Patrick Hester darius, excerpt, fantasy, Life, Writing 0 Comments

Excerpt Day 3: The Queen of Shadows

On a long, 3 day weekend several years ago, I wrote a book.  Called ‘The Queen of Shadows’, it was intended to be the first in a series of adventures of a Wizard named ‘Darius’.  As you might expect with a book written in...

March 31, 2010 Patrick Hester darius, epic, excerpt, fantasy, fiction, free, Life, wizard, Writing 2 Comments

Excerpt Day 2: Fan Fiction-Star Wars

I think we all enjoy writing a little fan fiction.  For me, there was a lot of different, well known universes that I played in as I was learning to write.  Sometimes, it’s easier to write in well established worlds because you know them so...

March 30, 2010 Patrick Hester excerpt, fan fiction, fiction, free, Life, star wars, Writing 1 Comments

Monday Writing Excerpt: Untitled

Whenever an idea comes to mind, I have to write it down.  Today’s excerpt is from an idea that I had for a scifi story.  I wrote up the synopsis and a dozen or so chapters but felt there were other projects that needed to be completed...

March 29, 2010 Patrick Hester excerpt, Life, science fiction, scifi, Writing 1 Comments
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