Category: Writing
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Build your own habitable planet -available tools
Everybody familiar with SF knows about the habitable zone, at least the basics. It’s that area around a star where life is possible. A…
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Interview with A.C. Wise
I am honoured to start my interviews of the year with A.C. Wise, speculative fiction writer and editor. She needs no introduction, therefore I’ll…
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Blogiversary -Year 4
And here we are -four years of blogging, and the last one happened so quickly my head is spinning. Not all the plans I…
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Friday (writing) + (cheap) advice [or: how to safely kiss plague rats]
It is 1 December, it is Friday and what I have to do today is to mark dissertation proposals (I work in a university, after…
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My favourite books about writing
I had a conversation with a friend a few days ago and we spoke briefly about books for genre fiction writing. Both of us…
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It’s this time of the year again (NaNoWriMo)
I believe everyone knows about NaNoWriMo, which stays for National Novel Writing Month, is an annual, Internet-based writing endeavour that happens in November. People…
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My author page is online
… about time, I know. It was on my 2017 new-blog-year resolutions (stated here), but for a reason or another, I have never fully…
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Heading to Milford – 9-16 September
Next week I am going to attend the fabled Milford, the annual UK writing workshop for speculative fiction authors. I am excited and together…
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Interview with L. L. Madrid, Founder and Editor of Speculative 66
I am thrilled to have L.L. Madrid here this month to present her amazing Speculative 66, one of the best venues for microfiction (I have…
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Good venues for microfiction
If you -like me – love flash fiction in all its declinations, you would also especially enjoy microfiction, which is, in many aspects, comparable…
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Interview with Francesco Verso, Editor in Chief of Future Fiction
Today I’m particularly excited because for the first time I’m able to interview on this blog something that’s not Anglo-Saxon SF. (There’s nothing wrong…
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The Cartography of the Solar System – The Moon
Now that I’m deep down in Artemis (I’ve mentioned it in another post) I realised that whenever I read a book set in one…
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On Writing – food for thought
I don’t often blog about writing, for many reasons (the main is: there are *hundreds* of people out there that do it far better…
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The blogs I read the most (my favourite? Or whatever you fancy calling them)
One friend asked me this very question a couple of days ago, and I have to say I didn’t know how to answer. Sure…
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Interview with the Editor-in-Chief of Salome’
Salome’ is a new UK literary magazine I’ve recently discovered, and I was so lucky to get Jacs, the Editor-in-Chief, here for a chat…
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Market News – SFF&H zines
I have always been an avid consumer of speculative fiction in all forms and format, and recently a writer, too. Therefore it’s always painful…
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2017 New Year’s Resolutions
2016 was not a bad year blog-wise, even though I went nowhere near my desired reading quota and even less in terms of book reviews.…
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Three years of blogging
This week makes it three years The Earthian Hivemind has started blogging, and I’m glad to say I’m enjoying it each year more. The thing…
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Markets for your fiction – how to locate them? A comparative analysis.
When I started, a couple of years ago, to write (again) fiction after many years of non-fiction / academic writing, I found myself a…
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2 years and counting…
Yes, this week makes two years of blogging for The Earthian Hivemind – two years I’ve enjoyed a lot and had the opportunity to…
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NaNoWriMo 2015 – done and dusted
Done -yesterday night just in time I finally validated my wordcount: 51,299 – otherwise said, I made it. It has taken a lot of efforts,…
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Scrivener as word processor
With NaNoWriMo 2015 half on its way I decided to say a few words about my favourite word processor. While I understand there’s a…
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One Lovely Blog Award – Pass it on!
This one landed on my (virtual) desk a couple of weeks ago or so, and I find it so nice I couldn’t avoid joining,…
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November (SF) events… read & write
Way too many things in November for people like me that love speculative fiction… but two are the ones I’m going to join. The first…