Patrick Johns Writes

Sharing my writing adventure with the world.

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Book Review 1: Dreamlander by K.M. Weiland

Check out my book review on Dreamlander by K.M. Weiland. #bookreview #amreading #amwriting

I have been a fan of K.M. Weiland ever since I discovered her informative podcasts called, “Helping Writers Become Authors.” K.M. Weiland has a bubbly, fun personality which makes these podcasts fun to listen to. Not to mention they are short (10 – 20 minutes) and very helpful with writing tips. After a year of listening to these podcasts, I decided to read her book, “Dreamlander.” Dreamlander…

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Movie Review: Why Him?

Check out my new review on the hilarious Rom-Com movie: Why Him? #movie #film #moviereview

A plot similar to Meet the Parents, with James Franco playing the Ben Stiller outsider role, and Bryan Cranston playing the Robert De Niro hard ass father role, Why Him? had its own unique qualities that made it an entertaining movie. I went into this movie with low expectations mainly because I am not fond of James Franco’s acting, especially in recent comedies. He is a little too much for me,…

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Disney Movie Review 3: Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Read about my 3rd Disney review about Beauty and the Beast (2017)

I am going a little bit out of the chronological order of Disney films on this one. My next one is supposed to be Fantasia but I couldn’t pass up seeing the new live action film, Beauty and the Beast. I saw it with my awesome mother in our local movie theater which I can’t even remember the last time I’ve been to. So it already brought back some old memories, good times, and good vibes. The movie…

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It has officially been a year since I started working on my first book called, Junkland. I can't believe how this once simple idea that was originally based off of an Emergency Light that I thought would make a good Disney character has now turned into an epic fantasy. Now 316 pages and 88,400 words later, and with two more books lined up in the series, I am almost there to officially releasing my first book! I can't wait! #Junkland #thehoardingseries #fantasy #scifi #scifibookclub #sciencefiction #DarkFantasy #ifnrtg #amreading #indieauthors #mustread #BookMarketing #iartg #YA #indiebooksbeseen #BYNR #FreeReads #novel #book #mywriting #writing #newauthor #bookseries

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Beautiful view of Lake Tahoe from the top of Heavenly Mountain. #laketahoe #heavenlyskiresort

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Emerald Bay

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The Wise Man's Fear Book Review

The Wise Man’s Fear Book Review

I just finished reading The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. It is the second book in the Kingkiller Chronicles and wow was it a hefty book: 1,107 pages. This took me about three months to read and I am finally done! It is about a mysterious man named Kvothe who is telling his story about his life to a scribe named Chronicler. There have been many rumors about Kvothe’s life and people know…

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Day 30: Completed NaNoWriMo! (Part 2)

I am officially a winner!  Vicotryyyy Screeeeech! It has been a long month of writing and I am happy to be done with NaNoWriMo. I think if I were to do it again I would spend a solid month of outlining before diving into the 1,667 words a day commitment. I did a decent amount of outlining before NaNoWriMo began but not enough to fill in the foggy areas in my story. So I struggled trying to write…

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Day 29: Completed NaNoWriMo! Part 1

Day 29: Completed NaNoWriMo! Part 1

WOOOO! I am fricken done and it feels amazing! Victory screech indeed. It has been a long yet fast month of writing and I honestly do not know how I developed 50,000 words in this time period. This took me months to do in my first book. But I am not done yet! I have a ton of outlining to do for my overall world in order to fill all my plot holes that I have developed while writing this new novel.…

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Day 28: Final Two Days of NaNoWriMo!

Day 28: Final Two Days of NaNoWriMo!

This has probably been the hardest moments of writing this month. You think after writing 48,000 words that the final 2,000 would be a breeze but that is soooo wrong. I have finished my story. Everything I have pictured and imagined in my head for the overall story is written down on paper as a first draft. Now the hard part is trying to write an extra 2,000 words without having any time to…

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Day 27: Final Four Days of NaNoWriMo

Day 27: Final Four Days of NaNoWriMo

Today I took a walk with a friend to the Arlington National Cemetery before writing. I was still shocked that so many leaves were still on the trees. When I went home to New Jersey for Thanksgiving, all the leaves had fallen off. So I was able to take some pretty nice pictures on the walk. I will post them below. We also stopped at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and was able to see the changing…

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Day 27: Final Four Days of NaNoWriMo

Day 27: Final Four Days of NaNoWriMo

Today I took a walk with a friend to the Arlington National Cemetery before writing. I was still shocked that so many leaves were still on the trees. When I went home to New Jersey for Thanksgiving, all the leaves had fallen off. So I was able to take some pretty nice pictures on the walk. I will post them below. We also stopped at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and was able to see the changing…

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Day 26: Go Hokies!

Last 5,000 words of NaNoWriMo!

After a long four hour drive back to DC and a Mean Girls movie night with the roommate, I somehow got the motivation to wake up at 8:10 am on a Saturday and go to yoga. After releasing all the toxins and extra turkey still in my body from Thanksgiving I was able to get my creativity back in motion. I wrote a solid 2,100 words in an hour which I have not yet done before. Usually writing 1,000…

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Day 24: Happy Thanksgiving No progress in writing today. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thank you to everyone who has been following my blog posts!

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Day 23: The Day Before the Battle

Day 23 of NaNoWriMo and a free sample chapter of my book Junkland.

This is it! I have finally made it to the giant battle scene at the end of my story. It has been a long 23 days of patient waiting but tomorrow I get to finally start it. Yesterday I was able to outline a few more story lines within the battle to make it even more exciting and thrilling. It involves me bringing a character back to life who died earlier in the story. I will need to go back and…

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Day 22: The Home Stretch

Day 22: The Home Stretch

After a crazy weekend and some birthday celebrations, it is time to get moving on the home stretch of NaNoWriMo. With less than ten days and 10,000 words on the horizon, I started to get to work today. I have officially started writing the end of book 2, the climax. I was a bit scared that I wouldn’t be able to fill it up with the remaining 10,000 words but today I regained hope after my writing…

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Day 21: My Birthday!

Day 21: My Birthday!

Today is my birthday and I finally made it back home to New Jersey! We had a nice family dinner last night to celebrate with all the grandparents and a few cousins. Today I went to the Ramapo reservation to do some hiking in this crazy weather we have been having. To further celebrate, I am going to be playing some Settlers of Catan tonight with a few friends…getting a little wild. With all the…

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