Author: Richard Holliday
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Kingston University: reflections on my first semester
In September I took a pretty big step by enrolling on a Creative Writing and English Literature degree at Kingston University. I’ve now got to the end of my first semester there and I feel it’s a good time to just look back on the last three months and reflect and review my time…
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Review: Xenonauts (PC/Steam)
I always held a certain appreciation for X-COM: UFO Defense, the cult mid-90s strategy hit that pits humanity (in the form of paramilitary organisation X-COM) against a classic alien invasion. X-COM was a devilishly-deceptive game, and notoriously difficult. When Firaxis recently-ish rebooted the series, I was, once my nostalgia cloud dispersed, fully on-board. With my…
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Looking Back On NaNoWriMo
This time five years ago I was halfway through my inaugural attempt at NaNoWriMo, and halfway through writing my first ever novel-length writing project. It was the culmination of a few weeks of late-night planning of something great, and ultimately what I would say is the first big “event” that signposted my taking “this writing…
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