Author: Richard Holliday
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Review: Displaced
Disclosure: I was provided with a copy of Displaced ahead of release by the author, Dan Hook, for review purposes. Post-apocalyptic books, from my own experience, live or die on the strength of the imagery and world-building, but also on the strength of the characters that populate that world and the plot that befalls them.…
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The Thaw – Third Draft Triumph
It’s been two years and change since my last post about The Thaw having hit the second-draft milestone and it feels like an eternity. However, I am thrilled and excited to announce this project has hit the third draft stage and you’ll be hearing a lot more about it from here on out! So, firstly,…
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Painting By Numbers? – Exploring the Advantages of Plotting and “Pantsing”
There’s an oft-described dichotomy between writers between “plotters” – those who assiduously and diligently plan their stories, sometimes with great precision, and “pantsers” who write by the seat of their pants in seeing how the flow comes, and writing whatever comes to them in the glory of the moment. Dan Hook summarised these approaches well…
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