Notes on emerging twenty-first century craft

Lupus in Fabula is a craft book for writers who want to abandon safe, conventional storytelling in favor of fiction that is immersive, raw, and alive. It invites writers to trust their readers, reject heavy exposition and moral handholding, and draw audiences into lived experience rather than narrating at them. Through a reimagined writer–reader contract, practical exercises, and honest reflection, it offers a deeper-than–deep-POV approach to creating presence, tension, and ambiguity, aimed at writers willing to venture into risk, uncertainty, and meaning-making in the dark.

The Art of Absence is a craft book that explores how silence, omission, and negative space can create deeper emotional resonance in fiction. Drawing on literary theory and contemporary practice, it outlines eight modalities of narrative absence and shows how restraint, withholding, and structural gaps can amplify meaning. Through practical exercises and comparative examples, it teaches writers to trust readers as co-creators and to use what is left unsaid as a powerful tool across any genre.

Poetika Postindustrijskog minimalizma is a radical craft manifesto that argues for a form of writing born from fragmentation, silence, and survival in a postindustrial world where grand narratives have collapsed. It proposes minimalism not as a stylistic choice but as an epistemology and ethical stance: a way of telling truth through cuts, pauses, fragments, bodily sensation, and negative space, trusting the reader as a co-creator of meaning. Drawing deeply on the specific textures of the Croatian language—its archaic tenses, dialects, rhythms, and everyday objects—the book shows how syntax, rhythm, time, space, voice, and omission can register lived experience more honestly than explanation or ornament. Writing here is not performance or profession but an ontological necessity: a means of resisting linguistic commodification, preserving dignity, and allowing consciousness to endure in a world defined by precarity, silence, and unresolved tension.