Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 52

Underpromise And Overdeliver (Or Just Deliver)

I tend to keep my mouth shut about projects until they are actually in some kind of sharable, discussable condition, and even then I keep details close to the vest.

The Present Moment Leaves Its Mark Anyway

I've found I do my best work when I'm not self-consciously trying to comment on my moment in time.

A Thing To Marvel At

The issue I have with tentpole franchise entertainment is not that it's unentertaining, but that it provides the wrong lessons for creators.

Movies For The Mind

How I sometimes model my approach to a book as if it were a movie for the mind.

The Future Is A Hodgepodge

If there is a "throughline" for our moment in time, it's not something that condenses itself down to the kind of overarching planning found in fiction.

The Artificers

Something is not "artificial" because of its means of production, but if the act of producing it, in whatever form, goes against your inner convictions.

The Palette-Swapping Problem

How I've tried to avoid using the template of a real-world story for my own fiction.

Dune (1984) [2021 review]

The mere fact that David Lynch's Dune was made at all, and in the Hollywood of the early 1980s to boot, is something of a miracle. Would that it was a better adaptation of the source material, or just a better movie, period.

What We Bring To The Table

Learning to find your own take on things you read or watch gives you a sense of what you can bring to your own work, too.

Slow And Steady Beats Fast And Furious

Making my blogging system faster by doing less.