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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.


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.


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.


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.


Tension without dialogue: how to carry drama with gestures and pauses

How to sustain tension and drama through gestures, pauses and actions. Silence shifts meaning into subtext and onstage choreography. Rhythm, objects and space become tools to tell without saying.


Circular narrative: returning to the starting point with elegance

Learn how to craft stories that return to their starting point without relying on cheap tricks. A well-built circular ending offers rhythm, coherence and emotional depth. The key lies in planting early details that bloom upon return.


How to Create Characters That Feel Alive

A journey into the craft of turning observation and voice into tools for building vivid characters and believable motivations, from the small gestures that reveal emotion to dialogue that burns with authenticity and choices that truly matter.