Patrick L. Rivers News

Hey all, it’s Patrick. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas or Yule or just a happy holiday season. It’s been a while since I did any update. But I assure you, I am actually hard at work writing. I’ve been busy with real life commitments and writing a set of stories for The Severis Tales ...

Hello all, As part of a small refit I’m doing to the website, I am disabling all new user registrations for the forseeable future. This was always an optional component, but at the moment, it is not a productive component. If I can make a justification for it, like on a reflow of the website, I will ...

With springtime in the air and the snow fading out, I have been busy piecing together this first book-length entry for The Severis Tales. I have formatted a 6×9 template with the contents of the book and am doing the last thorough read-through of the book, checking for formatting, continuity, and grammar/spelling mistakes. All that ...

Hello again, folks! It’s a month and a half into the new year, and a few months since the last update. I figure I should take a break, sit in Starbucks and shelter myself from the cold February rain (I feel terrible saying that), take a break from editing The Severis Tales and do an update ...

Can you believe it? It’s just a little more than a month until the year 2022! Despite COVID-19 and everything else going on in the world, the year just went by so fast. With regards to the writing, editing The Severis Tales as a book and concept took a lot more time than I thought. I ...

Hello, all. I thought I’d share an update on how things are going with The Severis Tales book. I have nothing general to add from a personal viewpoint, so here is a small FAQ about the progress and the book. Word Count Updates The bulk of my Twitter posts have been updates after I revise each short story. ...

Hello all, it’s been a long time. I haven’t kept up to date with blog posts as I should have, but I’ve been a busy man this past year. With real life work and the pandemic finally turning around here, it has been a wild ride. That being said, I have made progress on projects; others ...

It’s The Severis Tales time again with a new short story. Titled Elcra Needs a Dentist, it is the ninth instalment in the TST short story range. It concerns Elcra Winterbottom of the Winterbottom family and a personal dilemma that arises when she breaks a tooth. At around 5,700 words, it is one of the shorter TST stories ...

While sitting on the toilet, I came up with a scene about an elderly man on his last day of life who meets a young woman in a pub and tells her his story of wandering around the unknown parts of a world. I put that thought into the form of a poem called The Man ...

After lagging behind for a few months, the next instalment of The Severis Tales, entitled “A Day Out With Mira,” is up for reading. This is the continuation of the B-plot with Larry Severis and Mira Hutter, who have a day to themselves with unintended consequences. I don’t write this type of stuff well. I suppose it ...

My god, what a crap shoot 2020 has been. With the pandemic and everything, it has been quite a challenge for everyone, but with vaccines on the way, we can only hope 2021 is a better year for all of us. Well, I hope next year is better for me. Because of personal life and things ...

Hello all, What a screwed up year 2020 has been. A serious mess of Donald Trump, wicked weather, and the still-ongoing pandemic that once again is setting Greater Sudbury on the direction of a second lock-down. I’ve tried to keep busy and keep my mind occupied with work and other hobbies, but it has been a difficult. ...

In a long break, I have uploaded instalment 7 of The Severis Tales, called “The New Neighbours.” It is one of the larger ones, at roughly 13,400 words, divided into 4 tabbled parts for easy viewing pleasure. In this story, the Severis family has new neighbours for the first time in ten years, Leena faces yet another ...

Hello, friends. It’s been awhile. First, let me say that I’m still here and still going. The past few months have been challenging for all of us—even here, in Northern Ontario, where our COVID cases are now sparse and very few. Last time I did a blog post, I believe we were still in stage 1 ...

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and with a little more time on my hands, I thought I’d share a small update regarding the look and feel of the website. I have tweaked around with the site layout and fitted it to work in a much smoother and flowing way. It is less crunched up ...

I’ve been busy since the last update, so I thought I’d give an update on what’s going on. Before we get into it, however: Happy Gregorian and Chinese New Year! As I’ve said, I’ve been quite busy working to get the first book of Zephora Crisis out of the way and into the public. That’s all I’ve been working ...

The next instalment of The Severis Tales is up. The sixth story, Terrence Gets Painted, concerns Terrence Howard in an adventure with his own painting, one that causes a lot of unexpected attention and stress when his painting, done by final year art student Leah Evans, attracts a wide amount of attention from the media. They must take ...

Today, while on a break during real life work (a real thing), I got it into my mind I could write poetry. So, I wrote one, called OCD. This prompted me to create a new section on the website under the Works & Reams menu to put anything poetic in general in this section. Click here to access the main ...

Over past month, I’ve tinkered with the website theme a little bit, and made some visual changes to the way things are presented. First off is the main content and side bar texts. They now are boxed and a easier to see, and I made them universal between theme changes when you go between the main ...

With some help in proofing and glossing over, I have uploaded a new instalment of The Severis Tales. This is story #5, entitled “Eggs.” It is about one of Mila’s old friends selling foodstuffs. It also contains a few surprises and other unexpected reunions along the way. I’ve tried writing this story in a different tone or ...