Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 40
June 6, 2022
A Clear(er) Head For The Future
What Zen taught me about writing SF&F, part 1.
June 5, 2022
Magpie Mind Power
With every story set in a strange new world, give yourself as many individual elements of wonderful strangeness to draw on.
June 2, 2022
How To Make Sense Of The Universe
We might as well have narratives that make sense of the universe in constructive and nurturing ways.
May 29, 2022
Everyone Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth
Or until, as I did, break a tooth.
May 19, 2022
A Glass Of Chablis And A Corn Dog
On spontaneity as the wellspring of all creativity.
May 17, 2022
The Same Furniture In The Same Room
On deliberately not finding an equilibrium for one's creative work.
May 14, 2022
Lest We Repeat Ourselves
In some ways this new book of mine is a rewrite of an older book. In most ways, I hope it isn't.
May 12, 2022
Bookish Heroes
Let's have an end to the trope that a character who is an artist or an avid reader automatically makes them a protagonist.
May 11, 2022
Your Own Thing
"What is it that I have to bring to the table?" is the hardest question any of us can answer, and I think many of us never do in fact answer it.
May 10, 2022
Misery Index, 2022 Edition (And Earlier)
The story of a never-written project that made me realize why I don't want to rub the misery of our moment in people's faces and call that art.
