Fiction / Short story

Start Late, Let the Reader Infer

By Marina Torres

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.

5 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Novel

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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Fiction / Flash fiction / Short story

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

By Marina Torres

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.

4 min read · English edition

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Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse

Anatomy of a Viral Line: why some poems explode online and others do not

By Patricia Vila

A field guide to poems that travel fast without losing their soul, balancing clarity and surprise, writing for the phone without dumbing down, and shaping a turn that readers want to carry into their own conversations.

7 min read · English edition

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Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse / Prose

The rhyme you cannot hear: visual rhymes and internal rhymes the ear misses but the eye applauds

By Patricia Vila

A close, practical guide to reading and writing poems that keep music without end rhyme, using quiet echoes inside the line and patterns the eye can recognize, so the page holds rhythm without asking the ear for applause.

6 min read · English edition

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Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse

The Minimal Poem: the fascination with the one-line verse and its immediate effect on memory

By Patricia Vila

A short defense of the one line poem as a precise instrument for memory and attention, where rhythm does the carrying, editing does the caring, and the reader brings the rest so that a single breath can hold a room.

6 min read · English edition

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Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse

Why reading one poem in five languages means reading five different poems

By Patricia Vila

An argument for translation as creative authorship that favors the poem’s felt impact over literal mirroring, inviting readers to compare five versions side by side and notice how each language remakes cadence, image, and cultural weight while keeping the same emotional center alive.

6 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Short story

Hans Christian Andersen and the art of saying the obvious

By Oriol Puig

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.

11 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Flash fiction / Novel / Novelette / Novella / Short story

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