Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 43
March 20, 2022
On The Job Training
I always go back and forth about the value of "formal" education in creative endeavors -- e.g., creative writing classes or MFAs or film school or whatnot.
March 18, 2022
A Hundred Films, A Hundred Years
In my humble opinion, here's a great way to spend a few hundred hours.
March 16, 2022
Solving The Ego Problem(s)
"Solving the problem is more important than being right." A quick guide for writers.
March 14, 2022
Knots Within Knots
The job of a storyteller should not be to make things complex, but to find common threads in complex things. Doubly so in SF&F.
March 12, 2022
The First Week Later
The first seven days of writing "Shunga-Satori" convinced me I shouldn't use the word "weird" to talk about this book. Even if it's deserved.
March 11, 2022
Let Me Slide Into Your Inbox
As some of you noticed, I now have a newsletter. Its mission is simple: to bring you the best and newest of All Things Infinimata straight to your inbox, once a week on Monday mornings.
March 8, 2022
The Storyteller Is Asleep
On attempting (and largely failing) to stitch together dreams into a narrative.
March 3, 2022
The Big Kick
On Brandon Sanderson's big kick(start).
Short Attention Span Theater
Distraction or recreation? On the meaning of fun.
February 24, 2022
Here Comes The Pain
I fight the idea that the only sensible response to a world that seems to be driving itself mad is to hide under one's desk with one's head in the wastebasket.
