Author Homepage

I learned about author homepages from sci-fi author, Andy Braan. Thanks for the tip, Andy. Hopefully I am getting this right.

What is an author homepage?
In short, it’s a place to highlight your current writing goals, links to your published works, mailing list signups, etcetera.

Below you will find:

Current Goal(s)

  • Write 300 words or less every day for this blog for 365 days – COMPLETED
  • Grow my social connections to both gain a broader audience for my work connect with other writers and various stages of their writing journeys – ONGOING
  • Interview elders in my family to capture more of our stories – NOT STARTED
  • Tackle one alternative writing goal each month whether it’s a contest, or writing an article and submitting it to a magazine or newspaper
    • Submitted article to Bend Bulletin (March 2023)- not accepted
    • Submitted article to Hamilton Spectator (Nov 2023) – Waiting
  • Read Julie Powell’s 2002-2003 Salon blog, The Julie/Julia Project – IN PROGRESS
  • Spend these next 365 days creating an outline for my first book, including going through existing work throughout the year to see if 37 years of writing has given me a head start in anyway
    • SPENT EARLY DAYS RE-CREATING SHAKINGTHETREE.CA
    • STARTED NOVEL NOV 15, 2023

My Existing Work

Originally, I chose to just be known as Lawrence on this site and keep this project separate from my other writing. However, as promised on day 62 in ‘A Fifty Full Monty’, I decided I would tell all.

There isn’t much to tell – there are no big surprises or secrets – but there is certainly a lot to share.

If you would like to browse a small collection of my favorite works as well as links to some of my other blogging projects over the years, you can visit www.larrypattisonjr.com. This is my portfolio site. It’s a work in progress, but it’s there none-the-less.

When I was applying for jobs at animation studios during a trip to California in my mid-twenties, one company called me a few weeks later and told me I should consider putting my portfolio online.

All these years later, back in 2021, I decided I should do this for my artwork. Maybe one day I’ll figure out what to do with piles of diaries and hand-written writing logs.

My Newsletter

In all the years that I have been writing, I have never created a mailing list but who says old dogs can’t learn new goddamn tricks.

So without adieu (or with it if you dare), I give you the ‘What the Fvck Just Happened‘ weekly newsletter. Our weeks, like The Beatles, are 8 days though.

Newsletter Archive

(The current weeks newsletter will be uploaded the following week)