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Elastic Time: Telling One Minute in Twenty Pages and Twenty Years in a Single Paragraph

A clear guide to bending time on the page: turning a single minute into a chapter through focus, body, and syntax, and folding twenty years into one paragraph with precise anchors, steady rhythm, and a throughline of desire that holds it together.


The Meddling Narrator: When It Works and When It Wrecks Your Story

A plainspoken field guide for anyone who feels the urge to comment from the doorway of a scene and wants to know when that presence adds clarity, when it steals air, and how to train a voice that can step in for context, irony, ethics, or warmth without pulling the reader out of the room.


Start Late, Let the Reader Infer

How to drop into a scene already in motion, feed only the needed clues, and earn a cleaner, stronger short-story opening without hand-holding.


Letters Inside Novels: Why they work and how they set the rhythm

A brief, practical look at why epistolary chapters refresh pace, deepen voice, and give the reader clean beats for suspense, intimacy, and time jumps without breaking the spell.


A Good Ending Without Tricks: small clues to close a short story without a forced twist

A compact field guide to endings that feel inevitable rather than engineered, built from rhythm, image, and one earned decision instead of a last-minute reveal.


1984 by George Orwell: how reality is manufactured

A close reading of 1984 that follows how power trims language, trains memory to accept revision, and domesticates fear, while arguing that small acts of attention and ordinary tenderness still make a real breach.


Micro-stories: why tiny texts pull us in and what they say about the speed of our time

An essay on why very short fiction matches the rhythms of our days without flattening them, how a few lines can carry voice, place, and conflict, and why our hunger for tiny forms reveals both the fragility of attention and the desire to slow down inside a fast world.


What you didn’t know about Edgar Allan Poe

A portrait of Edgar Allan Poe built from hidden details that reveal his passions, struggles, and contradictions beyond the gothic myth.


Hans Christian Andersen and the art of saying the obvious

A direct reading of Andersen’s tale that shows the invisible cloth as fear turned into ritual, the parade as collective consent, and the child’s voice as an ordinary sentence that shifts silence into relief.


How to Create Characters in the Style of Poe

A practical guide to writing characters in Poe’s style: rational voices that inspire distrust, bodies turned into instruments of obsession, and settings that mirror the inner fractures of their protagonists.