Author: Richard Holliday
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Brevity and Briefs: Reflecting on a Short Story
Recently I submitted a new piece of work to my friend Kent Shawn as part of his short story competition. I decided to craft a brand new piece for the occasion and duly planned and wrote a lockdown-themed thriller story entitled Left Outside. This was a difficult challenge but also one I relished. If you’ve…
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Writing Thoughts: Writing Secrecy and Improving Confidence
When I first started to take my writing ‘seriously’ in 2010 I’d never tell a soul what I was working on. I’d keep it to myself until it was done (the project I started then, my first-ever Nanowrimo novel The Last of the Steamers, sits unfinished awaiting a substantial rewrite even now) – even telling…
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Review: Blue Moon (Paperback)
I’ve been on a binge of the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child – so much so I’ll be talking about that very soon – and picked up the so-far most current paperback, Blue Moon. It’s worthwhile to preface why I enjoy these books – often I’ll describe them as the literary equivalent of a…
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