Recent posts in category Infinimata Press: Projects
Barely. (More on writing draft 2 of "Shunga-Satori")
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2022-09-15 21:00:00
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In his delightful film Day For Night, François Truffaut's character (a film director himself) utters a line I think about often: "Making a film is like a stagecoach ride in the old west. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip. By the halfway point, you just hope to survive." Isn't that how it is for any creative project of scale? Especially a novel where you're forcing yourself to play over your head? Case in point: Shunga-Satori.
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A third of the way through the major rewrite of a new book, and some lessons learned.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2022-08-27 21:00:00
I'm now roughly one-third of the way through the draft 2 rewrite of Shunga-Satori, although the fact that I accomplished that in about a week doesn't mean the whole rewrite will take three weeks. Some parts of it will get rewritten very quickly (cut and paste with some edits), and some parts of it will be blank-page rewrites, where it might take days to complete a single scene. It'll take as long as it takes.
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Which is more of a challenge -- starting a project from a completely blank page, or restarting an existing one while surrounded by its mocking scraps?
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2022-08-19 21:00:00
After only a few days' work, I've accumulated nearly 20,000 words on the second, drastically different draft of Shunga-Satori. Much of that is repurposed text from the first draft, copied sentence by sentence and altered here and there to fit the new plan. Some of it had to be written wholly new. Writing the new stuff will probably take at least twice as long as repurposing the old stuff, so I'm guessing it'll be at least another two months before we have a draft that's complete from this one. Such is the work.
I've long said something to the effect of, don't get into this stuff unless you actually relish the idea of sitting down every single day to write. The doing of it beats everything else. Certainly the talking and thinking about it. One never experiences that as thoroughly as one does when forced to rework a project this drastically. Which is more of a challenge — starting a project from a completely blank page, or restarting an existing one while surrounded by its mocking scraps?
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"Shunga-Satori", draft 1 -- more like draft zero. Time to take a hatchet to it.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2022-08-14 21:00:00
Well, I meant to say this week that I'd finished the first draft of Shunga-Satori, but it didn't quite work out that way. That is, I finished it, but I suspect the vast majority of what I've written isn't usable. It's been a long time since I had a failure of this magnitude, but it's happened before, and I have long been prepared for the idea that it might happen again. And here we are.
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As some of you noticed, I now have a newsletter. Its mission is simple: to bring you the best and newest of All Things Infinimata straight to your inbox, once a week on Monday mornings.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2022-03-11 12:00:00
As some of you noticed, I now have a newsletter. Its mission is simple: to bring you the best and newest of All Things Infinimata straight to your inbox, once a week on Monday mornings.
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The soundtrack for my new novel "Unmortal".
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2022-02-11 12:00:00
In the time leading up to the release of my new novel
Unmortal, I'll be making a series of posts to serve as an extended introduction to the book — its origins, its influences, its themes, its setting and characters. Enjoy.
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See all entries in this series here.)
With each book I write, there's almost always a soundtrack of some kind to go with it — music to match the mood and tempo of each scene. That said, I find I almost never listen to the music in question when writing or editing the scene in question, as I find that too distracting; there's other music I have specifically for the writing process.
Odds are you can find most, if not all, of these by way of your friendly neighborhood music streaming service.
Note that the scene descriptions may contain spoilers!
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A discussion of the themes in my new novel "Unnmortal", and how they are embodied there.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2022-02-10 12:00:00
In the time leading up to the release of my new novel
Unmortal, I'll be making a series of posts to serve as an extended introduction to the book — its origins, its influences, its themes, its setting and characters. Enjoy.
(
See all entries in this series here.)
Last time I posted in this series, I talked about the characters, major and supporting. This time around, I'll run down some of the major themes in the story as I saw them.
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