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yost-Noir-City-Magazine-Cover One thing I hate, really, is when software tries to be smarter than me.
You know, spell-checkers double-guessing what I’m typing, GPS navigators knowing better than me where I want to go, and now, Gmail sorting my emails and deciding what I don’t want to read.

It was by accident this morning that I found out that Gmail had decided to file as spam all the communications to me from The Film Noir Foundation.
Now, about two years ago I had donated twenty bucks to the foundation – because I love noir, because it was the right thing to do, and all that.

Then, because of the already-mentioned chaotic months that followed, I completely forgot about it – also because I got no signal back from the Noir Foundation. Continue reading →

Yet another copybook.
Or, to be more precise, another ring binder.

Fact is, while my country sinks into terminal economic crisis and my CVs disappear in the black hole in which the CVs of the overeducated and underemployed end their life, I’m fulfilling my old dream of writing for a living.
Or die trying.

This means, among other things, keeping an eye out for open calls in the genres I normally write.

Which in turns means be organized, and write fast.
I already covered the write fast side of things in previous post, so I’ll talk about organization (or lack thereof) here. Continue reading →