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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 […]
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Hello! For the past two-ish years I’ve been fiddling away at a game. Sometimes feverishly, other times absentmindedly. Over the last eight-ish months, I really started to put my foot down on finishing the project. As any creative can attest, getting trapped in the project graveyard is both common and maddening. So with this project, […]
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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. […]
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(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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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I’m feeling a bit beat down today, creatively. I’m in one of those states where I’m ready to toss up my hands and yell to the cosmos, “fine, you win. I give up on this. I was never any good to begin with.” We’ve all had those days. I’ve had plenty in the past, and […]
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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, […]
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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. […]
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Carving out my own small corner of the internet
Tyler Hillis 