Author: Richard Holliday
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FutureLearn: Fiction Course participation
On the behest of my good friend Gary I’ve signed up for FutureLearn’s “Start Writing Fiction” course. This is an online-based course that aims to help people get writing, with a focus on the central skill of creating characters. This seems a great idea; often in my work I feel my characterisation is my weakest…
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Re-Colonisation: The Journey to Mars Zero
Releasing my first full-length novel Colonisation in April 2013 was a pretty big deal for me, and even though that form was only available briefly, it taught me a ton of lessons that are reflected in my writing to this day. I’ve been closely scrutinising my own work in terms of Colonisation; I’ve nearly finished…
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Honour and Glory
I’d been keeping an eye on the Titanic: Honour and Glory project for a while and it’s great to see it getting some media attention as it’s a noble and fine interactive project I feel anyone can relate to. But this week I finally got a chance to play around a small area of the…