What is the first thing we do when we open our eyes in the morning? We probably look at our phone screen. Check the notifications that have accumulated overnight, maybe just check the time. But the strange thing is that most of the time we don't do it consciously. It has almost become a reflex. We are drawn into the digital world in the early hours of the morning and we cannot get out of it throughout the day. But how much of this is by choice and how much is just digital noi

On 28 January, the Doomsday Clock , which symbolises the global threats facing humanity, was updated, reminding the world once again how close we are to danger. I came across it again and researched its full history. Today I am going to write about it. Founded in 1945 by Einstein, Oppenheimer and a group of nuclear engineers, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created this clock in 1947 with the images of the apocalypse (midnight) and the nuclear end (approaching zero) .

One of the goals I set myself last year was to write a story every month. Unfortunately, I was not able to fully achieve this. In addition to the 4 stories I finished, there were so many that I left unfinished. I literally look at that file every day and sigh. It hurts that I haven't finished the missing ones, but I don't feel tempted to start something if I don't feel like it. So I asked myself again what motivates me on a personal level. I put the shortcomings aside for the

Yesterday I started writing a short story, and thankfully I was able to finish it during the day. I had intended to leave it for another day. But when I started it suddenly, when my head was empty, the end came quickly. I had a lot of fun writing it, but there was one point that was important to me. I had to face my most difficult subject while writing it. Writing short, or in this context, writing to a limited word count. As the limit we set for our writing club is around 30

Yesterday was the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a writer I have been thinking about a lot over the last few months and who has always influenced me when I read him. For this reason, I wanted to talk about his poems and present the style of poetry that has been on my mind for a long time. Literary works are created by mixing emotions, questions, inquiries, answers, assumptions and lies (fictions) with different genres, themes and subjects. Here, both the author's st

We have entered the first quarter of this century. This has given me helpful ideas for all sorts of beginnings. Some of them I have already started, but there are a few that I want to keep going for a long time. As a project for this month, I plan to leave a time capsule for the next quarter. Actually, I was going to write this before New Year's Eve, but since it might be similar to New Year's resolutions, I decided to tackle it at the beginning of 2025. It's better that way.

Every new year, creative people leave some gifts to humanity. What those gifts are is revealed on the very first day. Yes, 1 January was "Public Domain Day". As you know, most works of art are protected by copyright as soon as they are created. But although works are immortal, people are not. Therefore, these works are no longer personal values, but are now shared with humanity, with us. Of course, if there are various foundations and organisations to protect these works, the

Softly falls the snow, as school days near their end, A year has passed—so swift, it’s hard to comprehend. The breeze was sweet, the heat was a different tale, Like yesterday, when summer breaks seemed infinite, my friend. The aroma on stove, orange flames that softly crack, Bread surrounds the room as smoke winds its track. The unyielding chill through floorboards creeping, And mothball-scented blankets for warmth we’d stack. Those days had spirit, slow to come, quick to fly

Which punctuation mark do you think is used most often in a story? Is it a full stop or a comma? Which would you logically expect to see more of? And is each story written accordingly? I bought the book I had to read for the book club and rushed to meet my friend without even opening it. Once I had caught my breath, the subject came up, he asked to see the book and I handed it to him. He was surprised! The spaces between the sentences were not like in any novel, they were lik

Have you ever visited a secondhand bookshop or a book fair? If so, you'll know how fascinating these places are. You probably know that book fairs take place at certain times of the year and are usually repeated every year. You'll find all kinds of books from dozens of bookshops. A secondhand bookshop is always there for you, a constant, reliable presence. Some are even regulars. They're the perfect place for a friendly chat. But in these places, finding the book you're looki

I would like to continue my list of New Year's resolutions, which I made on 14 December last year, in 2025. The following are promises, goals, or at least wishes I made to myself to become a better writer. You can read my article from last year at the link below. It is lucid and worth skimming. Since I will not repeat most of what I said there, those who are interested can read it. https://www.awordweaver.net/post/create-writer-resolutions-for-2024 For as long as I can rememb

Primary school, drawing class. Our teacher gave us an assignment that fascinated me even then: "What do you think will be invented in the future? What do you want to invent?" At that time, the most advanced mobile phones were the ones that had just come out of radio. I don't even remember if there were video cameras. If there were, I didn't know about them because we didn't have them. That was the first thing that came to mind when my dad and I put our heads together and thou

What would you say if I asked you to name the most glorious colour in history? Purple, of course, is the symbol of nobility, royalty, wealth, splendour, pleasure, exaggeration, ostentation and uniqueness. It is for this very reason that literature has its own term for it: Purple Prose . It is actually an expression used by the Roman poet Horace in his work “Ars Poetica”. In Latin, it is called “purpureus panna” (purple patch or purple passage) and describes the ornate and ex

There was an article I wanted to write last year, but I could not access the relevant clear sources. This year I wanted to mention it again, so I started researching. Unfortunately, the situation is similar, but I wanted to address it, albeit superficially, because I succumbed to my curiosity. I researched the bestsellers in our country. My aim was to see what kind of sales figures they achieved on an annual basis and to analyse what kind of books were selling more. The probl

Before I began my article, I wanted to write about another literary topic, but I could not put it into the form I had in mind, and I became upset. Feeling defeated, I tried to pull myself together after a while. Meanwhile, the subject of what kind of ordeals writers might have suffered came to my mind. I knew the stories of some of them, but as I researched and learned about others, I came to my senses. It was a day that reminded me how human failure is and that it can happen

As I was going through my article titles from last year, there was one topic that I wanted to cover this year. I wrote it on the 6th of December 2023, but this time I was a bit early, so I can only give you information from one source. First of all, if you want to read the article, you can click on the link . Our topic is the words that are chosen in 2024. Because these words can provide us with predictions and even more evidence about our society, the direction in which our

Literature classes and their teachers were the dreaded dreams of most students. No matter how much you loved it and were interested in it, it was usually challenging and the teachers were conservative, opinionated and demanding. So what were we missing as students? Literature was taught by rote, and little was learned beyond the names and authors of the first works. Lessons became repetitive - as if there was very little to talk about. Perhaps your teacher simply made you rea

One of the rare things I like about social media platforms is that they can give us ideas about what we are interested in or working on, help us visualise something and allow us to see what other people are doing. A friend of mine is interested in cameras, photography and digital editing. I love it too, but not as much as he does, to be honest. But we can meet at a common point, which is actually the output of the shoots: leaving something behind. You may have read similar ar

On 10 October 2024 it was announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature would be awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang, who will receive the prize on 10 December. The author, who has won other awards, won the International Booker Prize, which has been awarded since 2005, in 2016 for her book “Vegetarian”. According to the Nobel announcement, she won the prize “for her intense poetic prose, that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. After winn

In the last few weeks, one of the most important events in the history of art has taken place. It was an event of great importance for art lovers, but especially for musicians. No, I'm not talking about everyday singers, I'm talking about real artists. As you may have heard, Mozart has released a new piece. It's called "Serenata ex C" and it's accompanied by three violas. What do you mean, which Mozart am I talking about? The one we know, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Born in 1756