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

By Marina Torres

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.

13 min read · English edition

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

By Marina Torres

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.

13 min read · English edition

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

By Marina Torres

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.

6 min read · English edition

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1984 by George Orwell: how reality is manufactured

By Gabriel Montes

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.

12 min read · English edition

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How to Create Characters in the Style of Poe

By Marina Torres

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.

12 min read · English edition

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

By Marina Torres

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.

14 min read · English editionSpanish editionFrench editionItalian edition

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Circular narrative: returning to the starting point with elegance

By Marina Torres

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.

14 min read · English editionSpanish editionFrench editionItalian edition

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The eternal duel between James Joyce and Virginia Woolf for the soul of the modern novel

By Gabriel Montes

A journey through the contrasting visions of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, two authors who revolutionised the portrayal of consciousness and forever transformed the modernist novel.

10 min read · English editionSpanish editionFrench editionItalian edition

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How to Create Characters That Feel Alive

By Marina Torres

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.

10 min read · English editionSpanish editionFrench editionItalian edition