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Finishing the Creative Process feels like post-clarity… Don’t go there, Pat. Sike, I don’t even joke like that. I’m just saying... the process builds anticipation, and then it’s just done.   The ending feels anticlimactic… For example: If you’re a musician, people can stream your music, buy your album, or share your songs on social […]

In this video, I reflect on what it meant to build PATCHYp while teaching myself how to bring the vision to life. From learning WP and web design to branding, image creation, and book production, each new skill came through patience, trial and error, and long stretches of figuring things out on my own. In many ways, building PATCHYp is a story of my creative growth, persistence, and belief in my vision.

Reading literature is different from just reading to find out what happened. Sometimes you gotta slow down, pay attention to how something is being said, and notice what keeps coming back. Everything might not make sense right away, and that’s cool. This guide gives you a few things to look for so you can get more out of the work.

PATCHYp became more than a childhood nickname. It came to represent the part of myself that could move between different worlds without completely belonging to any of them. The neighborhood, the classroom, the dugout, the professional world, and eventually the creative space. At the core, Patchy is about community and connectedness. Kicking it with all people without losing sight of where I come from. StandPAT is also part of me, but PATCHYp is the version that I'm trying to to lead with.

I’m trying to find my writing rhythm again without forcing it. The old style doesn’t fit anymore, and the new one is still taking shape. Right now, I’m just getting shots up until the touch comes back.

There’s something majestic about late hours in the early morning. Over the course of several months, I developed a particular routine. First, I’d start with taking a mid-day nap, and I wouldn’t set any alarms. I’d just sleep until I naturally woke up. Which sounds trivial, I suppose. Because what is so significant about taking […]

My absence was never inactivity. Pat was still creating, still working, still supporting people, and still figuring out what parts of myself were worth carrying forward. Stepping away gave me room to reconsider visibility, ambition, community, and the impact I want to have. Now, the question isn’t really where Pat has been. It’s what I've learned while nobody was looking, and what I intend to do with it.

I’ve been building websites for years without ever really knowing what I was doing. A lot of it was trial and error, breaking stuff, starting over, and figuring it out as I went. PATCHYp is the first time all of those lessons, ideas, visuals, and writing really came together the way I wanted.

The process of composing literary work, documented in photos.

I almost kept this one to myself. Not because I had nothing to say, but because I knew what it took to say it right. I wrote this from a place I do not like revisiting, plus, pain is easier to carry in private. But silence doesn’t always protect you, it simply shoulders the weight in one place. So, I let this speak for the parts of me that had to hurt, learn, and keep persisting. Narrated: by Ced.

This lives somewhere between the lesson and the leap. Where the ground shifts, the room changes, and every decision begins to carry more weight. It’s the moments that make you question what kind of person you are becoming. The cards are on the table, the room is quiet, and the next move requires more than confidence. Growth is not loud. Sometimes it’s a quiet moment when you realize what the table taught you.

This is LITERATURE. I start this piece with a welcome, and then I proceed to warm up your mind. Much like this site, nothing is black and white. Think about that twice… Pat writes literature. Some things are funny, other things are serious, or it might cause you to pause. So, this is my way of saying: come in, pay attention, and don’t rush through it. It’s all about connecting the dots… That’s LITERATURE. Or, it's just my FreeSense.

Published: 1/7/23 Revised: 8/15/26 - I wrote this piece to explain why pseudonyms make sense to me. Writers have always used names, personas, and distance to protect themselves while still telling the truth. In today’s world, that feels harder. Everyone is expected to have a brand, a face, and a story attached to the work. I’m thinking through what it means to write honestly, stay private, and still let the work speak for itself.

Published: 12/15/22 Revised: 8/25/26 - I explain my creative process in a real way. Not the clean version, but the actual process. The writing, the isolation, the routines, the late nights, the drafts, and the years it took to build my voice. This is about respecting the work, taking the craft seriously, and understanding that nothing meaningful comes without time, sacrifice, and patience.