Welcome to Storytelling Planet
Thank you for being here, wondering, wandering and reading.
I am Gizem and I have been on this planet for forty three years. My name means mystery in my mother tongue. I was born and raised in Istanbul as a bundle of mystery and I’ve lived most of my life here, estranged yet physically present, besides the years I spent on the west coast of the Turtle Island studying filmmaking and working after my mother’s passing. As far as I can remember, I have always foamed with imagination, stories and dreams but in 2008, a wild story found me and changed my life forever. Ever since I have been apprenticing to storytelling and imagination, and working on bringing wild fantasy stories into written word.
I am not a biologist, I am not a geologist, I am not an anthropologist… My field of work is imagination and creativity. I deeply love our planet and universe. I consider myself an ongoing creative storytelling activity; an animist artist and storyteller. Gizegen is my artist name and my planet. It is a word play between two Turkish words gizem (mystery) and gezegen (means planet in Turkish).
Gizem + Gezegen = Gizegen.
Storytelling Planet and its stories are mostly free beings.
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I am a non-native English writer… therefore, I suspect, there will be some language blood, broken sentence bones, mischievous grammatical mistakes, made-up words and peculiar ways of expressing things; I hope they muse and amuse you.
With wild imagination, creativity and respect,
Gizem Gizegen
