Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 25

How Many Stories Do We Have Left?

How many stories do I have left? I don't know, and I want to keep the door open on that question as long as I possibly can.

The Death And New Life Of The Heart

That one horrible week of mine in 2005, and what lay beyond.

The Self-Publishing Morality Play And Other Myths

Why I now realize self-publishing should not be a morality play of us vs. them.

Mythmaking Incorporated

Among the many projects I have cooking, I've pitched as "what if Tolkien, but with Apuleius as the source?"

The Limits Of Control

How Scott Adams embodies one of the tragic aspects of modern fame.

Vision Thing Progress Report

This last week, I've spent working on��Charisma, but I've taken a step back from the manuscript itself to rework and replot the book. It's still got the same overall design and the same direction and conclusion, but many of the details along the way had to be adjusted once I wrote a rough version of the first third or so. These things happen; it's a��good thing. It means I'm getting a handle on the book by way of the concrete details I have for it already -- that whole "in the trenches vs. from ...

40 Versions

What could I have been in another life?

The Washing Garbage Problem

How much rewriting is too much?

The Debt I Owe To Nan Robertson

The author of a Pulitzer-winning New York Times Magazine article left me with a debt I am still trying to repay.

Breaking Up A Story Molecule

Or maybe it's a story salad.