When you’re little, you hear a song and you fall in love with it. It’s energetic, it’s upbeat, and it has lyrics that you don’t care what they mean. Maybe it’s even a foreign song with lyrics you wouldn’t understand even if you came across it again years later. One day you somehow realise that the song you were dancing to with pure and childish feelings was actually the story of an adult summer romance. Your life has been a lie. But that’s OK, you danced hard back then. Anywa

I have had to meet with my friends a lot in the last few days and it has been a bit mentally draining. I am a person who has difficulty communicating even with people I see close to me, and this may require me to make an extra effort when I am face to face. I am sure there will be some people who will have a hard time understanding what I am saying, but that is really the case. As far as I understand, I have a certain limit that I can tolerate in a social situation, and once

I don’t usually have a multidisciplinary approach to my work, and when I’m faced with a backlog of tasks, I can get either frustrated or overwhelmed. But being busy  once in a while is not as bad as it sounds. Especially  if we put time and effort into things we enjoy doing. There’s a saying that I agree with, even though I haven’t been able to fully integrate it into my life, you know, “work at a job you love so much that you see it as a hobby, not a job, and do it with joy”

I spent all day yesterday researching for a side project I’ve been wanting to work on for a long time. I needed to look at images and get ideas and it seems I lost track of time. As far as I can remember, the last time I had so many tabs open was when I was doing intensive research for an article or my dissertation. The intensity of so many tabs, one after another, adding more than I could close, was overwhelming. But instead of worrying about it, I was excited  because I enj

In your everyday life, when you talk to friends, listen to the news, sing along to songs, read a book or watch a film, there is sometimes a point that catches your attention. There is something that keeps adding to the story or repeating itself. This can be annoying if it happens often, or it can be helpful in understanding what is being said.  Ultimately, however, it is unique to the person using it. Recognition of certain artists or works is linked to the genres they occupy

The other day I was talking to my friend about motivation . He said that he and everyone around him had suddenly collapsed and that January was a dishonest, inhospitable, grumpy  time. I laughed because what he said matched what I was hearing from my circle. After falling ill on the last day of 2023, I couldn’t get out of bed for days and went through the most difficult and frustrating process I’d had in a long time. I got through it, but it was as if I had left all my will i

In today’s fast-paced world, taking time to explore and express our personal creativity  is a powerful way to add value to our lives. Perhaps the most powerful. While there are conceptual differences between the two, they seem inextricably linked. In fact, while craft   is usually the result of using our manual skills to create tangible and useful artefacts , art   allows us to use them to express our feelings, thoughts and dreams. As we have said, the beauty of art and craft

I would like to discuss the digital vs. analogue  (physical)  style as a topic of debate that has been going on since the time that technology became established in our lives. However, I have chosen to present the conclusions I have drawn from various articles I have read and my own thoughts, rather than the superiority of one over the other. As a person born in the 90s, I felt that I was in the middle of a technological transition . Of course, this is not entirely true, we t

We are becoming less and less socially literate every day. Let’s think about a day. Do we have time to read? Or do we not even think about it because we have to find time to survive? To be honest, I am well aware that my reading habits have diminished over the years. If I compare my reading of novels with previous years, I can see that there has been a noticeable drop. But instead I try to read articles, poems and essays  on a daily basis and try to make up for this deficit.

This morning I started Ray Bradbury ’s “ Dinosaur Tales ” as the first book I wanted to read in the new year. It is actually a collection of several stories. Even though I have read a lot of his work and adopted his mentality, he still surprises me every time. He wanted to write about dinosaurs , the thing that fascinated him most as a child  (which many of us researched and read excitedly in encyclopaedias) . He devoted some time to them at certain times and ended up with so

A few months ago I came across a really unusual social media account. The user travels around the known parts of the world, but the strange thing is that there is no one anywhere . According to him, he is on a world that is exactly like ours, but he is stuck in an alternate universe  where there is no one. Although this is, of course, the fictional side of the work, he is able to convey the fictional text he is talking about very well because he makes great use of his video e

We use different signs and words to help us identify and communicate all kinds of objects, relationships or ideas. We call these symbols . Symbols are found all over the world and each one has its own story to tell. For example, a red sign we see makes us slow down our car. It is a global symbol with a meaning that warns us to stop. Of course, there are also symbols in literature. They don’t always have to be there, but their frequent use is not unexpected because they make a

About 2000 years ago, Aristotle introduced a concept in his work “ Poetics ”. This concept included the tragedies that the heroes in the works could experience  and how they could be shaped. Tragic heroes tend to be in high positions or born into a noble family . In general, there are no problems in their lives. Of course, they are not entirely trouble-free, but they are usually well-meaning people with a firm moral compass of their own. Their stories begin well, but as event

For the last two days I have been thinking about the difficulty of developing a creative work.  I did some reading, as it was a subject that was on my mind, and then I tried to widen my view by discussing my thoughts with ChatGPT. On the other hand, after a few months, I met up again with my good friend of 17 years. He is not an enthusiastic person about writing, but when he saw my passion, he started asking questions. “How did you start? What are you doing? Do you like what

If you say,  “I’ve got a good story in mind and I want to write about it,”  but you don’t know what to look for when writing, then this article is for you. Let’s examine some techniques that can be used in basically any story, but will gain value according to your personal narrative. Action Show, Don’t Tell Without further ado, here we go. Let us start with the most common technique.  “Show, don’t tell”  helps you to convey the characteristics of the events or objects in your

The world of literature is full of madness. It contains dozens of genres and will continue to do so by adding new ones in the future. Today I would like to analyse one of these genres with you. Gothic  is a genre that has periodically grown in importance and has created its own unique readers and audiences, both in novels and on screen. It has given rise to famous writers and memorable films. Photo by Soroush Karimi  on  Unsplash Gothic literature is a genre that evokes inten

Telling stories or narrating events is at the core of our being. It varies according to vocabulary, mindset and perspective . But whether fiction or fact, there are certain patterns. Almost every story has at least one character . These characters also have a personality that they reflect. If the story is long and detailed, they may change over time. They are likely to evolve, for better or worse, and take on a completely new form. In creating their characters, writers are ca

I am here with an interesting theme that I think has not been emphasised very much. I want you to imagine that you are writing a book, a process that can be exhausting and stifling, but also creative, educational and joyful.  This time is different for everyone. There will be people who support you. Maybe your friends will ask you a lot about it, your family will be proud, or it will come up in conversation with someone you don’t know at all. There will be moments that make y

When we present a story, we want it to be as unique as possible. We think it should be special to us and have the flavour we want. Yes, we can create a work that we are inspired  by or that refers to well-known works, but we are still careful not to create an ordinary one. After all, what makes any work of art interesting is its originality , what makes it different from others. Therefore, there is something we must acknowledge. As long as you add your own imagination to your

If you don’t like the subject matter of your stories, or you’re not sure what you want to write about, this article is for you. I hope it will help you sober up from those thoughts that have settled in your mind and create negative feelings. Recently, while reading forums on the internet, I came across people asking if their topics were suitable for storytelling. To be honest, I found this situation quite strange. But it had nothing to do with the fact that I already had a st