Category: Writing
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Worldbuilding for historical fiction – travels
That worldbuilding is complicated and time-consuming is something every creator of fiction, no matter the media adopted, knows well. Creating detailed and coherent fantasy…
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Writing about science and space for other blogs / 5
This is the periodic update about articles I have contributed in these last months to other blogs. Compared to last year I have been…
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Gernsback SF Short Story Writing Contest 2015
If you’re following this blog you already know I contribute articles to Amazing Stories. Today I’d like to talk about the SF short story…
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Migrating WP blog to a self-hosted site – (hard) lessons learnt
That’s done – migration and everything. No matter all the information I have collected beforehand and precautions adopted, it has NOT been a smooth…
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Lost in translations
A quick post while the migration of The Earthian Hivemind is ongoing. A lot of features still don’t work and I have a lot of…
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Bloggers’ dilemma – Moving over to a self-hosted blog?
After many doubts, considerations and evaluation of pros and cons I think I have made up my mind. I’m migrating to a self-hosted platform,…
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Writing about space and physics for other blogs / 4
Latest articles published on Serious Wonder, all of them devoted to space missions, present or future. UNDER THE KRAKEN SEA – A NASA SUBMARINE…
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NaNoWhat? – Options and (Damage) Assessment
A few days ago I received an email from the NaNoWriMo Team kindly informing me that I, proud winner of the 50,000 word-race, am now in…
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Interview to Ken Liu, on Amazing Stories
An interview to Ken Liu, the SF Chinese-American writer, author of some excellent short stories (published on F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld among others)…
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One year of blogging
Today is my first birthday as a blogger. The Earthian Hivemind was online first on December, 16 2013, just giving a flash report on…
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Science in SF – Articles for Amazing Stories
In addition to astrophysics and space exploration, I do also write articles about another of my favourite subjects, science in science-fiction, on this blog and…
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NaNoWriMo – Mission accomplished (wow)
Here I am. Just finished validating my draft of 50,932 words. I barely believe I made it – but those words came somehow out…
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Writing about space and physics for other blogs / 3
The usual update about my latest published articles on other blogs/magazines – these ones on from Serious Wonder. This time I have only included the…
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NaNoWriMo – Challenge accepted
Here I am: after a lot of thoughts about it since last year, and a very persuasive writer friend of mine, I have done…
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Writing about space for other blogs / 2
My latest published articles on Serious Wonder. Incidentally, there are also a few more on space and SF posted by other contributors – I do recommend having…
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Writing about space for other blogs
I have started since a couple of months or so to contribute to a great blog called Serious Wonder, one of the most innovative…