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...
What To Expect In 2013
Hi there. I know I haven’t blogged much the past couple of weeks. I didn’t intend to take that time off, it just happened. Anyway, I thought I’d let you know my blog plans for 2013. 1. Scrivener Quick Tips Yes, I will be...
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...
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...
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...
RC Cola, Moonpies and Zombies
© 2010 Patrick Hester, All Rights Reserved I knew I had a problem the moment I walked through the sliding doors at the Mega-lo-mart and saw Zombies eating people. Now, the President of these United States had just been on the idiot box telling us...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Week of Writing
This week, I’ve decided to share excerpts from various projects I’ve been working on. Essentially, you’ll get an excerpt each day this week. Some are current projects, some are from things I’ve worked on throughout the...
Tales from The New Universe: Gunny Homn
Happy Monday. I wanted to share something different with you today. It’s not Flash Fiction due to it’s length, but nor it is really a short story. It’s something in-between. It’s a bit of future-history from The New...