Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 145
October 20, 2015
He's Good People Dept.
Still waiting on some site stuff to be fixed; here's some interim blogging for you.
October 17, 2015
No One Perfect Thing Dept.
The site migration's going a little bumpier than I'd like — some pieces are working better than ever, others not at all — but I'm still capable of blogging here.
Last night I did some final cleanup onWelcome to the Fold,with one very last touch to add — an additional scene suggested by my editor that puts a few things into perspective near the middle of the story. I'll need to sketch that scene out and then write it, but I think I have an existing sketch I dashed off in email to Ellen that wi...
October 16, 2015
The Switch Is Still Stuck Dept.
We're dealing with some backend stuff that may make it difficult to continue posting, as a couple of key pieces are still missing. I took advantage of the sort-of downtime to do some badly needed backend cleanup last night, although the fruits of that work may not be immediately visible.
One thing at a time.
October 15, 2015
It's Just This Little Chromium Switch Here Dept.
Firesign Theater fans will get the reference, I'm sure. The hosting company has thrown the Little Chromium Switch on the server migration, and the new server seems to be quite spiffy indeed. Some pieces are still missing, but I'm in the process of having the folks at A2 take care of that. We should be back at full capacity within the day.
October 14, 2015
You Got To Move It, Move It Dept.
I'm preparing to have the site and several of its cousins moved to a new server in a couple of days. Until that happens I probably won't post anything. The current server we're on has become untenably slow, and apparently my hosting company has a sweetheart of a deal I would be foolish not to take advantage of. See you all in a few days.
October 13, 2015
The Wonderful Mess Dept.
Constant Readers (all two of them) will remember (assuming they have had their coffee) how some time back Iposted a primer on how I develop my ideas into a story. Right now I'm at stage 1 withAlways Outnumbered, Never Outgunned,bordering on stage 2. I have The Idea, and now I'm moving into The Rehearsal.
About half the Rehearsal process happens in my head; the other half — the half that is the most transformative and important — happens on paper. Or, rather, in a newly inaugurated TiddlyWiki....
October 7, 2015
Fork In The Road Redux Dept.
I might have put my foot in it with my announcement yesterday that I was changing tracks — shelving the projectThe Palace of the Red Desert and switching to a new one namedAlways Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. My explanation forwhy I'm doing that might have come off wrong, so here's another attempt to make my motives clear.
October 6, 2015
Wait, Let's Take That Other Fork In The Road Dept.
I mentioned earlier my next novel was to be calledThe Palace of the Red Desert,and I dropped a few hints about what it was to be — a historical fantasy of sorts, drawing on an amalgam of Asian history for inspiration.
Over the last couple of weeks, though, I had a change of heart. Okay, more like a change of heart, mind, spirit, and ambitions.
September 26, 2015
Hunting High And Low Dept.
Somewhere along the way in my reading in years past, I'm not positive where, I came across the assertion that we needseparate critical standards for "high" & "low" art. The face of the assertion alone was already causing my knee to jerk hard enough to kick the underside of the table I was sitting at. I couldn't figure out why at the time I was instinctively rejecting the theory; I think now I know why.
September 23, 2015
Vampyros Lesbos/She Killed in Ecstasy
Cult films aren't made by design, just asnobody setsout to become a cult director or actor.Vampyros LesbosandShe Killed in Ecstasywere intendedto be moneymaking exploitation pictures, not cult items, anddirector Jess ("Jess")Franco and actress Soledad Miranda never planned to end up as the object of veneration by cult film fans. Hence the fascination generated by both of these movies and the people involved with them: the films areamateurish, clumsy, primitive,and weird, but all in such an un...
