All posts for Shunga-Satori in March 2023
Shunga-Satori: Behind The Scenes With 'Shunga-Satori', Pt. 2: The Idea
How my new novel "Shunga-Satori" took form as "the underworld surrealism of a dark fairy tale."
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2023-03-27 08:00:00-04:00 No comments
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In Part One of this series, I talked about how Shunga-Satori started as a project about an artist trying to make sense of another artist's legacy, and how the failure of that project to coalesce led me to think more about how to make a story out of one of its components.
Shunga-Satori: Behind The Scenes With 'Shunga-Satori', Pt. 1: The Origins
How my new novel "Shunga-Satori" started as the story of a dreamspace.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2023-03-26 08:00:00-04:00 No comments
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Of all the books I've written so far, Shunga-Satori arguably has the most roundabout and tortured path from origin to destination. In fact, I'm not even sure at this point what exactly counts as the "origin" of this project, but I'll do my best to parse the fossil record.
But if this project started anywhere at all, it was with the title.
Shunga-Satori: The Big Red Pencil
I'm almost done with editing the proof copy of Shunga-Satori, and I found ... well, a fair number of things that somehow managed to elude me in previous drafts.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2023-03-18 18:00:00-04:00 No comments
Briefly: I'm almost done with editing the proof copy of Shunga-Satori, and I found ... well, a fair number of things that somehow managed to elude me in previous drafts. This is not a show-stopper, merely a show-delayer. I might have to write a few things, and do some close checking for a few things, but the book is 99.5% there as far as I can tell.
Editing with the proof copy is a radically different feeling than editing even on regular paper. It feels a lot more like being handed someone else's work and asked to weigh in on it without reservations. I found myself raising questions I'd completely missed before — not normative ones that would have forced a full rewrite, but ones still big enough they deserved close attention before the book went into other hands.
I am not an absolute perfectionist, although I'm close enough to one sometimes to play one on TV. There's some things about the book I've gone back and forth about — certain aspects of tone or voice, for instance — but at the end of the day I've decided those things are the way they are for a reason. If they turn out to be a bad idea, then I'll just have to keep that in mind next time around.
Shunga-Satori: The Big Shunga-Satori Proof Copy Show-Off
It's here! It's here!
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2023-03-11 16:00:00-05:00 No comments
After a couple of delays, my proof copy for Shunga-Satori is finally in my hands!
Shunga-Satori: The Big "Shunga-Satori" Sign-Off
What I learned while writing my latest (and strangest) novel.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2023-03-06 07:00:00-05:00 No comments
Well, it's almost done. As of earlier today I put in an order for the proof copy for Shunga-Satori, with what I hope are the just-about-final cover copy and interiors. If all is well, then I'll set up the Kindle edition in the coming week, and we should have my latest, and strangest, novel out into your hands long before the end of the month. (Spend some of that sweet tax refund money on it! It's cheap! You'll be supporting an artisanal creation!)
I haven't yet set up an official splash page for the book — that's still to come in the next couple of days — but once I have that in I won't be able to shut up about it.
Here's a few things I picked up along the way while working on this particular book.
