Nice Christmas list from The Snow Pavillion

Even the best laid plans…
I was looking forward at the long weekend of the 8th of December – four days and then some of highly productive writing.

Everything was nicely laid out, and my health gave away – which means I went down on Friday and only this morning I emerged from four days and then some of warm soup and aspirin, coughing and generally feeling miserable.

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I wasn’t even able to spend the time reading.
What a waste.

But now things are looking up again, and I started working on a new story – my first ever gaming tie-in fiction project¹.
I’ve got the characters, the story, a soundtrack and the first 2000 words of what’s planned as a 15.000 words novelette…

Things are looking up.
Later!

well, not exactly – my contribution to the Delta Green anthology Extraordinary Renditions was a gaming tie-in, but it was part of an anthology, so… ok, I’m cheating. ↩

5 December 2015
by Davide Mana 2 Comments

Robert Loggia and T.H.E Cat

I’m very saddened by the passing away, at the age of 85, of Robert Loggia, one of the most recognizable faces of both cinema and television.

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When I was a kid, Loggia was one of my personal heroes as the titular character in T.H.E. Cat, an old TV series (1966-1967) I used to watch on some local station. Continue reading →

Useful resources for travelers (and writers)

6 Amazing Websites to Learn a Language If You’re Too Busy

Must-read from Chuck Wendig…

“I Meant What I Said When I Said The Soup Was Good,” I Ejaculated Most Fizzily

Great article and reading list by John DeNardo in Kirkus:

Dinosaurs in Science Fiction

29 November 2015
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What the situation hands us

I was thinking, yesterday, that this writing thing is quite fun and all that, but one might also do without the ups and downs, the mood swings and the very bad days (yesterday was a very bad day).
I mean, hand pains, weird hours, and rewrites and waiting for news from publishers are all bad enough without also getting melancholy and sad and then back again.

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And so I thought about this video – a nice, intelligent song, a quick discussion of manic-depressive artists, the truth about Los Angeles plumbers and electricians, and life in the countryside.
What else we need?

Enjoy!