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Hello! It’s with great excitement that I can share my first self-published story is available to purchase. Frenetika The Mage is a prequel novella to it’s companion video game, FRENETIKA. You can purchase an e-book version (which is also free with kindle unlimited) or purchase a fancy shmancy paperback version! As I wrote in a previous post, this novella was initially intended to be unlockable lore in the video game. However, once I released the game I was pretty dang…
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Wow, it’s been a while. And life continues to roll on. As mentioned in my last blog post, work on the book has continued on. Perhaps not as quickly as I planned (a universal truth of creative projects), but continued nonetheless. Since that post I sent out another volley of Query Letters to prospective agents. And since that post, I received another volley of rejections. It was expected, yes, but still discouraging. And so, my rate of pitching agents slowed…
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Hello! It’s been a while. There have been some big life events that have kept me from updating this blog as regularly as I’d like. But I’ve found some time to jot down a few thoughts. First, my wife and I are expecting our first child in July. As to be expected, we are excited, nervous, anxious, terrified, and beyond happy (with a few more emotions mixed in). Our amazing families have been a huge support so far and will…
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I’ve hit some big milestones since my last update. I finished another round of editing on the book. I feel as though it’s really coming together into what I had envisioned. The more editing passes I take, the more refined it becomes. And the more confident I become in the story I’m trying to tell. With finishing up the latest round, I decided to go out on a limb and begin sending out query letters to agents. This meant writing…
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Hey, just in case it hasn’t come across in my previous updates, I want to hammer in the point that writing is fucking hard. You have to be intentional. Disciplined. Motivated. And a thousand other things, all while life continues to happen. In a perfect world you could hit pause on everything and spend as much time on writing as you like. But that perfect world does not exist, which makes what published authors do even more incredible, to me…
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The second draft is finished…but the work is far from over. The next step is to get this thing (this magnificent, obsessive, pain-in-the-ass thing) in front of other people. I need some miniscule amount of validation to confirm that what I’ve started is worth continuing. My first generous readers will be a litmus test. Yes, I will encourage them to provide as much feedback as they can – including grammar and punctuation marks. But what I really want to know…
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THE VISION I promise, what is listed out below is not meant to be an edgy cryptic post. It is simply the first letter of each word that I wrote out on a page in my journal. This page is THE VISION that has formed while working on this book. It is my 3-year plan ahead. All of what I want to achieve with it. I am posting it here because I believe in putting aspirations out into the world.…
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The work begins again. It has been longer than I initially planned to step away from the book, but honestly, the three and a half months now feel like time well spent. Not only do I think it will help in the editing process of the book, but I also achieved other things. I had an amazing vacation to Europe with the love of my life. I coached my second season of high school soccer. I went down to California…
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It is finished! The first draft, at least. Coming in at 390 pages, 110,000 words, 28 Chapters. The Great Tower City has taken its first complete form. This, my biggest project to date, took three months of daily writing to complete. I’ve detailed my process in a previous post, but committing to at least a hour a day of focused work proved to be a successful structure for me. I missed only three days over the last three months (Christmas…
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The work continues with steady routine. When I first set out to write this book, I never imagined how long it would take me to finish the first draft. Once I got a little over halfway through it, the length intimidated me. I saw what was left to write and felt as though my ambition had balooned. Had I known its length from the outset, I may not have ever committed to writing it. But that’s not to say I’m…
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Tyler Hillis 