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Ryan M. Patrick is a United States Air Force and Space Force veteran, aerospace engineer, and author. Originally from the Philadelphia area, he currently lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, four daughters, and dog.

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I’ve talked a lot about wasted words and improving the process. I thought I had finally gotten past it – The Kuiper Dominion I more-or-less kept the same throughout, and I had just been blowing through Memento Vivere since I picked that project back up. I even posted this week about the progress I’m making.

And yet in the middle of the week this week, I decided to throw out all 80,000 words and sta

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