Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 26

Liberate The Voice And Everything Else Will Follow

Liberating the voice and being able to speak as only you can, rather than through the thousand voices you've inherited from the outside, is the hardest and most essential skill.

What I Learned From Zine Culture

My own early creative impulses were fueled not by zine-making as such, but by the DIY aesthetic, and ethic, they embodied.

You Don't Rise To The Levels Of Your Goals, You Fall To The Level Of Your Systems

You don't rise to the level of goals, you fall to the level of your systems.

To Write Out Of Spite

A big part of how I became a writer: I wanted to one-up my older brother.

If You Can't Trust Yourself To Write It, No One Will Trust Reading It

If you have the confidence to tackle a given thing and see it through, that by itself can be enough to fix any problems you worry it might bring with it.

How Not To Talk Yourself To Death In Your Writing

When questions come to mind while writing a work, I have strategies for keeping them from growing without bound.

According To Someone, Somewhere, I Am Writing A Bad Book

No matter how much work I put into any one book, it's going to be "bad" according to someone, somewhere, and there's not a thing I can do about it.

We Talk About Brain Surgery AND Ice Cream Here

What should you blog about? Well, anything, really.

You've Heard Of Code Smells? Here's Story Smells

Have you, in fact, heard of a "code smell"? If not, here's a quick primer:

The Keyboard Killer Chronicles

I've killed my second keyboard in about as many years. Time for a replacement.