Zihnin Dinlendiği Yerde Huzurun Yazdığı Şiirler Herkesin tatil anlayışı farklı. Benim için bu İstanbul’dan çıkmaya eş değer. Ne...

Poems Penned by Peace, Where the Mind Is at Ease Everyone's idea of a holiday is different. For me, it's about leaving Istanbul. No matter what I do, not being there feels like a mini escape. I'm glad I finally left temporarily after a few years. I was especially glad to be freed from the constant noise, traffic, and meaningless chatter of those around me. I realised that this also helped me relax. On top of that, the ever-changing sky and scenery are refreshing, too. In fact

Haziran itibarıyla düzenli olarak yazmaya başladığım ikinci senemi doldurdum. Öncesinde farklı bloglarım, köşe yazılarım veya forum...

As of 20 June, I had been writing regularly for two years. Although I had previously written for various blogs, columns and forums, it was when I started writing on Medium that I established a regular writing routine. During this time, two of my accounts were closed for unknown reasons, despite my best efforts and those of the Medium 'authorities' to find out why. Fortunately, I also upload my writing to my own website, even if it is only in English. Of course, I keep offline

Gerçekleştirdiğimiz her kulüp etkinliği sonrasında bende hissettirdiklerini, öğrendiklerimi ya da kafama takılanları sorgularım. Bu...

After every book club event, I reflect on how it made me feel, what I learnt, and which aspects have stayed with me. This train of thought occurred to me when I considered the wide variety of stories in our fiction club. I wondered what approach could be taken to generate story ideas. You may find some of these helpful as well. Since I’ve organised my notes under headings, I’ll present them in the same way. Let's get started. ·  Generating random headings and brainstorming id

Kemal Tahir’in “ Sağırdere ” adlı eserini okumaya başlamadan evvel kitabın arkasında yer alan şu cümleye takıldım ve üstünde düşünüp...

Before I started reading Kemal Tahir's novel “ Sağırdere ”, I was struck by the following sentence on the back cover: "Every artist takes the people of the society they come from as their subject; for them, the greatest truth is the truth of their own people."  I couldn't start reading because I kept thinking about it. It made me think about the values I incorporate into my own characters. When approaching the issue from a fictional perspective, I find it helpful to divide it

En son ne zaman bir şiir yazdınız ya da okudunuz? Bu şiir, birine mi adanmıştı yoksa kişisel duygularınızın soyut bir yansıması mıydı?...

When was the last time you wrote or read a poem? Was it dedicated to someone, or was it a reflection of your own abstract emotions? Let’s explore together how personal and social dynamics might shape our poetry. I realised that I hadn't written anything about poetry for months. This, combined with the fact that I hadn't written any poems or prose recently, made me feel uneasy. I usually carefully archive every piece I write, but I hadn’t recorded anything recently. Strangely,