Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 33
December 23, 2022
Vanishing (And Reappearing) Act
What I did on my extended winter vacation. For one, I moved house.
December 12, 2022
On Doing One's Homework
Especially when you want to write about your world, of which you've not seen very much yourself.
December 6, 2022
Band-Aids For Severed Limbs
Fixing little problems makes it easier to fix bigger problems. But we keep thinking it's the other way around.
December 5, 2022
Happy Accidents
Commercial success for creative work is less about the work itself and more about its circumstances.
December 4, 2022
Smarties
Our mistake with intelligence was to consider it as possession rather than a skillset.
December 3, 2022
The Kessel Run Is A Unit Of ... Fun
How consistency, foolish or otherwise, can be the hobgoblin of small minds in SF&F.
December 2, 2022
Knock It Off, Criswell
Why I find the obsession with "prescience" in science fiction to be misguided.
November 30, 2022
Show, Don't Tell (A New Way To Get It Wrong)
"Just depict, don't also imagine" is a poor program for art.
November 29, 2022
The Postmodern Story (Or Lack Thereof)
On the lack of stories with moral authority and narrative force about life in the vacuum of reactionary postmodernity.
November 26, 2022
Fronting And Faking
Too many times I've started a project only to shelve it because it was nothing but putting some attitude on display. And a bad attitude at that.
