Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 55

Roll With It

Your job when writing a story is to listen to what this material is telling you it needs to be, and go there.

How Can You Say You Know Me When I Don't Even Know Myself?

It's impossible to control what happens when people pay attention to you in numbers. Just respond as gracefully as you can.

Pace Yourself

It took a year to produce a first draft of "Unmortal". It was worth the wait.

Let's Blow This Popsicle Stand

When you are faced with a world this chaotic and nasty, is the only sane response to reject it wholesale?

Take Three Stiff Drinks And Sleep For A Week

With "Unmortal"'s first draft more or less finished, I think some wind-down is in order.

'Summerworld' Returns!

The remaster of "Summerworld", the first of my novels, is out at last!

Pi

Darren Aronofsky's ingenious micro-budget debut, twenty-plus years later, holds up better than some of his bigger-budgeted efforts

How To Cover Yourself

My fifteen-minute guide to making professional-looking self-published book covers.

What I Learned From Whom And Why

A distillation of what I've learned from other creators who aren't writers.

Bogging Down In Soggy Middles

How not to get stuck halfway through something you're writing.