Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 27

Write For That One Guy

Good advice for instructive writing: "pick one person and write for them."

A Previsualization Of Previsualization

A short story I wrote in high school had some pretty eerie presaging of some of the stuff going on in the world of creatives right now.

Good Taste, Common Sense, And Other Difficulties

Sound creative advice always seems like common sense in retrospect.

Draft One Point Something Or Other

This week's writing brought together my understanding of my new novel "Charisma" with the kind of momentum that made it difficult to stop and breathe.

LLMs And The Problem Of Constructive Surprise

Large language models aren't a good method for transformative creation, but they fake it superficially well.

A Cyberpunk Of The Here And Now

I'm calling my new book "Charisma" a work of cyberpunk, in the sense of "the street has its own uses for things".

Setting Sail For New Shores

"Charisma" is now officially in progress, as I've written -- and rewritten -- what amounts to a first chapter.

A Great Reason For Failing (And Why It Doesn't Matter)

"It���s best to spend zero time on what you could have done and all of your time on what you might do."

The Lessons Of Contempt

On recognizing and curtailing contempt culture.

Scamboogery Incorporated

How I was the target of what might have been a botched phishing operation.