Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 5

The Fake Factory

The anti-anti-gen-AI-art arguments revolve around ignorant notions of art as nothing but end products or artifacts, not embodiments of lived experience.

Chaos A.D.

On our self-inflicted disaster.

Nano No Mo'

The organization behind National Novel Writing Month is shuttering. I don't even feel loss.

Outside Of Time

The only thing that proves what lasts in time��is time, and there are no shortcuts for that. Case study: "Princess Mononoke."

What Fell Out Of My Heart, Pt. 2

Letting go of something does not mean you have to automatically find something else to "take its place" (pt. 2).

The Rock Of Your Own Life And Its Underside

If you don't turn over the rock of your own life to see what's actually there, you're going to be starved for any actual material to draw on.

Let Them Teach You First

If we do not give characters freedom of speech, of movement, of heresy, then we never know what they can become in any story.

The Rip-Off Machine

Which is worse, having one's work merely pirated, or having one's work used as the basis to build systems to make writers theoretically irrelevant?

Where Is My Heart Now?

Letting go of something does not mean you have to find something else to "take its place".

Rile Me Up!

Fearlessness in art has to be more than just "pissing off the right people"