Tyler Hillis

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    • – TNT Baby Kart
    • – D.W. Dagger
    • – PLanet Rex
    • – Cop N’ Cat
    • – Witching Hours
    • – Patty Hawk’s Pro Burger
    • – Galactic Golf
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  • writings
    • – Candy
    • – The Trial
    • – An Ode to the Cornerstore
    • – Dragon’s Nightmare IX
    • – Drifting Among The Stars
    • – The Bravest Soul (Screenplay)
    • – Do you feel like you’re festering, Adelaide? (Screenplay)
    • – The Woman Stoker of Dublin
    • – MOMNT
  • Book Update #14 – The Final Update

    Yep, it is time. There is a common fallacy known as the sunk-cost fallacy wherein an individual (in this case a writer) is reluctant to give up or change their strategy because they’ve invested so much time and effort toward it, and to do so, would essentially be throwing all that time and effort away.…

    Uncategorized
    T
    Oct 12, 2025
    author, books, creative-writing, fiction, writing
  • MOMNT

    (To read this story in non-blog format, follow this link) Garrett Falk swayed with the train car as it bounced along on its way through the city. The other passengers swayed too.  A semi-translucent window hovered in front of him in the middle of the train car. He flicked his pointer finger and the window…

    Stories
    T
    Dec 9, 2024
    dystopia, fantasy, fiction, near-future, philip k. dick, sci-fi, short story, short-stories, story, subscriptions, writing
  • How to stop time

    I’m stuck in a place that has run out of time. What once seemed like an abundance – filled with unlimited opportunity – has fallen through the cracks like sand. Where did the time go? Well, it went willingly to the newborn baby and all his needs and wants. This bit of time was not…

    Misc
    T
    Nov 20, 2024
    baby, house, relationships, time, writing
  • A Complicated Grace

    For the past two years I’ve been agonizing and wrestling with “the book.” This project – a high-fantasy debut novel – has pushed my creativity and persistence to new levels, and you can read all about my struggles and triumphs in my previous blog posts. So it comes as a surprise to myself that my…

    go buy
    T
    Oct 1, 2024
    addiction, book, complicated, forgiveness, grace, grief, memoir, trauma, writing
  • Book Update #13

    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.…

    Book Updates
    T
    Sep 24, 2024
    agents, book, book publishing, literary-agents, novel, publishing, query, query letter, querying, reedsy, story, writing, writing-tips
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