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Welcome To The Fold
When a young woman joins an underground street-theater movement with plans to change the world, her boyfriend follows her in to "rescue" her ... only to find it may cost both of them their personalities, and maybe also their lives.
Serdar Yegulalp sent an update for Flight of the Vajra

When I created Flight of the Vajra, it was unlike anything I’d done before, and that was the idea.

Now I want to call your attention to a new project of mine, one that’s as unlike anything I’ve ever done as Flight of the Vajra was.

The new story is called Welcome To The Fold, and I’m going to be using Inkshares to get the word out about it. Instead of it being set in the far future, it’s set in the here and now. But in the minds of those in the story, it’s an all-new kind of here and now.

With each passing week or so I’ll be posting a new update to the story, and I’ll be alerting you here to new additions. I encourage you to follow the new project and get updates directly from it.

My plan is to post the first third or so of the book, then see what kind of attention we’ve drummed up at that point and go from there.

For now, though, you can start reading here:

https://www.inkshares.com/books/welcome-to-the-fold

I hope you end up being as surprised by it as I was.

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    Serdar Yegulalp sent an update for Welcome To The Fold

    When I created Flight of the Vajra, it was unlike anything I’d done before, and that was the idea.

    Now I want to call your attention to a new project of mine, one that’s as unlike anything I’ve ever done as Flight of the Vajra was.

    The new story is called Welcome To The Fold, and I’m going to be using Inkshares to get the word out about it. Instead of it being set in the far future, it’s set in the here and now. But in the minds of those in the story, it’s an all-new kind of here and now.

    With each passing week or so I’ll be posting a new update to the story, and I’ll be alerting you here to new additions. I encourage you to follow the new project and get updates directly from it.

    My plan is to post the first third or so of the book, then see what kind of attention we’ve drummed up at that point and go from there.

    For now, though, you can start reading here:

    https://www.inkshares.com/books/welcome-to-the-fold

    I hope you end up being as surprised by it as I was.

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      Serdar Yegulalp followed Striver
      Striver
      “The Great Gatsby,” meets “The Wolf of Wall Street” with a little sprinkle of “The Big Short.”
      Serdar Yegulalp liked the forum thread, Synopsis Edits: Master and Servant
      Thanks again, Serdar.  I’ll consider this further.  I feel like there is some middle ground where I interest and educate you quickly so I can "get on with the story" vs. forcing you to labor through a chapter of character development before you even understand what’s happening.  There is also a ton of time passing in those first few paragraphs that no reader will want to live through.  It’s a tough issue, because I have feedback on the other end - telling me I grabbed their interest and moved very fast, thus keeping their interest.  

      I have another draft up, The Kingdom Calls, that is exactly the opposite; it starts with people and a lot of get-to-know-you introductory work.  If you care to peek at that one, I wouldn’t be mad!

      If I can’t smooth a little more character work into the front, I may cut the first two pages altogether and see if that doesn’t fix it.  I haven’t read it that way yet, but I’ve had that experience in the past.  Want a story in medias res?  Cut off the front of it...

      Anyway...I will think hard on this.  I agree with you that SF people are often afterthoughts; it’s a very MTV generation problem in sci-fi literature.  A cool idea about a robot is cool, but if there isn’t a journey for someone we connect with a lot of us won’t be interested.  I’d like to have both types of readers engaged, to be honest.  Because cool ideas about robots are cool, dammit.

      It may come down to taste, although I’m not discounting your feedback.  Hopefully that is clear by my ham handed first stab at addressing your initial feedback.  I want and need you to be a reader, especially since you are willing to take time out of your day to help me and give me feedback!  I truly can’t thank you enough for doing so.
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        Serdar Yegulalp followed Last of the Late Brakers
        Last of the Late Brakers
        Last of the Late Brakers
        When a top racing team first used their hi-tech simulator online, it was for fun. But soon it became everything.
        Serdar Yegulalp followed The Lion in Darkness
        The Lion in Darkness
        A priest who must murder to keep living, a blind boy with a sword and vengeance in his heart, a war the likes of which the world has never seen, and the thing that was a man but who would be a god pulling all the strings
        Serdar Yegulalp liked the forum thread, What music do you listen to when writing?
        BT – A State Of Trance 650 - New Horizons (Mixed by BT)

        Been REALLY enjoying this lately. BT (Brian Transeau) is amazing, and "A State of Trance" is always pretty good, but this BT mix is stellar. 
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          Serdar Yegulalp created a forum thread: Project organization
          I’m curious what other people use to organize their writing projects -- not just the document itself, but also the notes, the multimedia, all the "sidecar" stuff that goes with it.

          In my case, I’m using MS Word for the manuscript itself. For organizing notes and other data, I use a wiki application called TiddlyWiki -- stupid name, great program.

          I wrote about my use of TiddlyWiki here -- http://www.genjipress.com/2016/03/sorting-it-all-out-dept.html -- but the tl;dr version is that it conforms to fit my creative habits, instead of providing me with a boilerplate. (Or, if you want to put it another way, it lets me create my own boilerplate that I can then change as need arises.)

          I think some folks here use Scrivener, although I confess I found the program a little too strait-jacketing for my tastes.

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          Serdar Yegulalp followed JT Stevensen and the Agents of Vermillion.
          JT Stevensen and the Agents of Vermillion.
          Something dreadful happened on Jerimiah’s 8th birthday. Four years later he returns to where it took place and now strange things are happening that can only be described as magical. What happens next will change everything he knew about the world.
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