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Poetry in the age of the scroll: how the poem changes when it is born on a screen

An essay on how vertical reading reshapes the pulse of poetry, asking for precision in every cut and images that endure beyond the feed, so the screen becomes another home where language can breathe with its readers.


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.


The Architecture of The Metamorphosis: How Kafka Builds the Monster

The architecture of The Metamorphosis: three acts, thresholds and repetitions narrowing choices to the end, with Grete and the household as engines of change under debt and shame.


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.


The Useless Art of Underlining for the Joy of Reading

This article reflects on how the culture of productivity has invaded even our bookshops and proposes a simple yet subversive gesture: reading slowly, underlining without reason and giving the book back its living and unpredictable disorder.


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

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.


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.