Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 31
February 28, 2023
Rogress Preport: February 2023
Welcome, after another long hiatus, to Rumor Control once again. Here are the facts of what stories I'm working on in 2023.
February 25, 2023
A Steak Sandwich Yesterday Isn't Competition For Meatloaf Today
Take any two projects that seem like they could be the same, and there's a good chance under the skin they're nothing alike.
February 24, 2023
Bookrocacy (Or How Sometimes You Just Wanna Write And Say The Heck With The Note-Taking)
I hate all the bookkeeping that goes with writing a story, but I know I can't avoid it.
February 20, 2023
Blow-Up
Michelangelo Antonioni's classic of mod London gives us a man who spends his life looking without really seeing.
February 18, 2023
12 Monkeys
Terry Gilliam's paranoid time-travel labyrinth is less an SF film than a story of the fear of madness, but no less powerful for it
February 17, 2023
A Truly New Something
"An original message is a unique and transformative perception of the conditions for our existence."
February 16, 2023
The Unasked And Unseen Questions
Science fiction and fantasy are like any other fictional mode: they're only as good as the presumptions brought to them.
February 15, 2023
The Holographic Story Theory And Other Delusions
You never get the whole story in your head at once. Except maybe when you think you do.
February 9, 2023
Moving Pictures
On trying to jumpstart my writing about movies again.
February 6, 2023
Putting Tinsel On A Painting
Single images, strikingly chosen, make the best cover designs. More than that is tinsel on a painting.
