Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 3

Laughing Stock (Talk Talk)

Better for Talk Talk to fade away than burn out with this last record. And what a beautiful slow fade it was.

The Next Few Gentle Steps Through The Fire

Let me take a short break from juggling flaming chainsaws to brief everyone on all the other stuff going on.

The Cure Is (Over)Work

By now I know all too well my predilections for workaholicism. If one project isn't cutting it for me, I don't so much take it easy as just switch to another one. Or, if a project has been festering away in the back of my mind for too long, I deal with it by digging it out and throwing its corpse on the table to see if the electrodes are worth hooking back up to its neck.��My latest round of (over)work involves this very site.

Narrowing Clarifies

Pick one thing, even if it's not THE thing. That act alone changes everything.

On Not Being Good Enough, 2025 Edition

If I'm to confront the chaos of the here and now in my work -- and I don't feel I have a choice-- I haven't the faintest idea how to do it.

Typing With Both Fists

If things are bad, I need more than to be told they're bad. I need alternatives.

Enough With The Limbo Already

I'm sick of waiting. "Charisma" is finally coming out as an Infinimata project later this year.

Come For The Noise, Stay For The Work Ethic

Some more on how the big inspirations for my self-publishing imprint come from indie musicians and record labels.

To Confront The Moment

I never wanted to use my fiction to rub peoples' faces in how we've gone wrong, but suggest ways out instead.

We Have Always Been The Bad Guys

Fascist tendencies in SF&F aren't an aberration, but a constant temptation to be resisted.