Category: Writing

• Writing in the Library

  The three most important things in writing fiction are arguably plot, characterisation and setting. Today’s blogpost will be discussing setting, but not in the context of a fictional universe, but where I the writer craft such fictional universes. This is a view I am becoming quite familiar with; it’s the view from the work area…

  Richard Holliday

  February 4, 2013

  Assessments, Writing

  colonisation, Nanowrimo, the world eaters, writing about writing

• Audiobook Experiences

  Today I had the great privilege to spend the afternoon with my good friends Elliot and Jamie as we recorded the majority of the audio version of Oranges and Lemons, the short story I wrote last autumn and released on Kindle (project page here) We got nearly the entirety of the story down, with a…

  Richard Holliday

  January 13, 2013

  Announcements, Writing

  audiobooks, oranges and lemons, short stories

• Colonisation Day Revealed!

  I’m very pleased to be able to announce that I have begun the second editing phase of my novel Colonisation and feel comfortable enough to be able to set a general release date for the story as March 31st 2013. I have received some pretty great advice from my beta-readers and expect to receive more…

  Richard Holliday

  January 9, 2013

  Announcements, Writing

  colonisation, editing, release