Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 66
December 11, 2020
Kid Stuff, In Theory
The single hardest thing I could try to write would be a children's book.
December 10, 2020
Not Enough There There
With many of the stories I've taken up only to abandon, what was most interesting to me about them seemed impossible to communicate to others.
December 9, 2020
The Seven Deadly Sins, Over And Over Again
On a narrow, reductionist view of fiction (and not a very good one, for that reason).
December 8, 2020
Rogress Preport, December 2020 Edition
Time for a look back and a look forward: what I did and what I'm doing.
December 7, 2020
The Anatomy Of Addiction (God)
A thunderous fusion of jazz and industrial rock, way out of print but absolutely worth seeking out.
December 4, 2020
Hard, Soft, And Squishy
I don't care if SF is possible, I care if it's plausible.
The Disinhibition Prescription
On creativity: The opposite of inhibition is disinhibition, not uninhibition; an act, rather than a state.
December 3, 2020
Game Over Player One
What's sad about Ready Player One (and Two): the commanding power cultural nostalgia holds over people in bad times is worth exploring. Just not in a story like that.
December 2, 2020
Minimal Headwordspace
2020 just about killed my enthusiasm for reading, which was finicky to begin with.
December 1, 2020
The Process (Skinny Puppy)
"The album that killed Skinny Puppy", an only partly realized concept record about a cult movement, has much to recommend it after 25 years.
