Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 89

How To Make Up Your Flippin' Mind

Learn to cut stuff, lest your creative work becomes one giant act of paralysis.

Milestone Markers In Many Forms

There's more than one way to mark progress for a work in progress. Sometimes it's when you take one step back so you can take several more steps forward in a new direction.

Dream On

For a creative person, I have some of the dullest dreams around. I don't get it either.

Nobody Cares Enough About Your Idea To Steal It, Part Nine Thousand And Six

Ideas aren't what matter, anyway. Execution is. And beyond that, the habit of executing. But why do we get hung up about great ideas?

Even Bad Mozart Is Hard

The most beautiful Mozart you'll hear, the one from your own fingers, is beautiful because you now know what it costs to have even a bad version of Mozart out there.

Highly Illogical, Jim

When does a story's logic hold fast, and when does it break?

Hello From The Other Side

A letter to a long-dead friend.

Just Play At This

"Don���t think about your discipline, don���t think about your craft, just play at this."

Self-Work In Progress

If you don't work on yourself, it makes the job of others defining you against your will easier for them.

Constructive Loafing

On Zen as the "do-nothing" philosophy (which it isn't).